Mser (language)
| Mser, Kousseri | ||
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Spoken in |
 Cameroon Chad
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| speaker | 500 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
kqx |
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MSER (also Kousseri is called), a Chadian language , which in the region Extrême-Nord in Cameroon is spoken. It was formerly also spoken in Chad in the outskirts of the capital N'djamena , including in the village of Klesem, but has apparently now died out there.
It is one of the Kotoko languages and is divided into five dialects, Gawi , Houlouf , Kabe , Kalo and the actual Mser , possibly another dialect was spoken in Chad. Mser itself is spoken in the town of Kousséri , Kabe and Houlouf in the towns of the same name, Kalo in Kala-Kafra .
Ethnologue lists the language as "8a (dying)", according to Henry Tourneux in 2004 there were still 500 people who mastered the language. Most people now speak Shuwa Arabic , which is increasingly displacing the native languages and dialects as the lingua franca .
A Latin script for Mser, which was developed in 1999, is in experimental use.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mser | Ethnologue Source: Ethnologue (English), accessed on February 8, 2016