Vulum language

Musgu
Mulwi
Native toCameroon, Chad
EthnicityMusgum
Native speakers
(160,000 cited 1993–2005)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
  • Mpus
  • Beege (Jafga)
  • Vulum (Mulwi)
  • Ngilemong
  • Luggoy
  • Maniling
  • Muzuk
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3mug
Glottologmusg1254

Musgu is a cluster of closely related language varieties of the Biu–Mandara subgroup of the Chadic languages spoken in Cameroon and Chad. The endonym is Mulwi. Blench (2006) classifies the three varieties as separate languages.[2] Speakers of the extinct related language Muskum have switched to one of these.[which?]

Names

Muzuk is another name for the language. Another term, Mousgoum, is not used by the speakers themselves.[3]

Munjuk languages

Munjuk languages:[3]

  • Munjuk
    • Muzuk
    • Beege
    • Mpus
    • Vulum

Munjuk, from manjakay (H. Tourneux), refers to the a group of four related languages, not only Muzuk. Munjuk languages are spoken in northern Mayo-Danay Department (arrondissements of Maga, Yele, and Kai-Kai in the Far North Region).[3]

Beege and Mpus are found in the flood plains of the Logone River, in (Logone-et-Chari department, Zina district); Diamaré department (Bogo district). Beege is found in the south (Djafga and Begué) and Mpus in the north (in Pouss). Vulum is found mainly in Chad.[3]

References

  1. ^ Musgu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. ^ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  3. ^ a b c d Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.