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Musgu language

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Native to
  
Cameroon, Chad

Native speakers
  
165,000 (1993–2005)

Ethnicity
  
Musgum

ISO 639-3
  
mug

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara East–Central Munjuk (B.2) Musgu

Dialects
  
Mpus Beege (Jafga) Vulum (Mulwi)

Musgu is a Biu–Mandara (Chadic) language of Cameroon and Chad. The endonym is Mulwi. Blench (2006) classifies the three varieties as separate languages. Speakers of the extinct related language Muskum have switched to one of these.

References

Musgu language Wikipedia