Mire, or Mulgi, is an

Afro-Asiatic The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic ...

language spoken in the southwestern

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Repub ...

ian prefectures of Tandjile Prefecture and

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. Most of the speakers, who generally practice traditional religions or

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, speak Ndam (65%

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) or Kimré (32% lexical similarity) as a second language.

References

East Chadic languages Languages of Chad Endangered Afroasiatic languages {{Chad-stub