Maslam (language)
| Maslam | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon , Chad | |
| speaker | 250 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
msv |
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Maslam is a Chadian language , which in the region Extrême-Nord in Cameroon and in Chad north of the capital N'djamena is spoken. It is one of the Kotoko languages and is divided into two dialects, the actual Maslam and Sao . The former is spoken in Maltam , a town about 25 km west of Kousséri , the latter in Sahu . In Chad, the villages of Miskini and Blabli speak Maslam and the villages of Farcha-Milezi and Ngara-Mandju Sao .
Ethnologue lists the language as "8a (dying)", according to Henry Tourneux there were 250 people in 2004 who mastered the language.
A Latin script for Maslam which was developed in 1997 is in experimental use.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maslam | Ethnologue Source: Ethnologue (English), accessed on February 7, 2016