Mesqan language

Mesqan (also Mäsqan or Meskan) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Gurage people in the Gurage Zone of Ethiopia. It belongs to the family's Ethiopian Semitic branch.

Phonology

Consonants

• Sounds /p, pʼ, v, sʼ/ occur in loanwords, mainly from Amharic.
• /xÊ·/ may also have an allophone of [hÊ·].
• /b/ may have an allophone of [β] in postvocalic and intervocalic positions.
• /n/ may assimilate to [ŋ] when following a velar consonant.
• /k, É¡/ can also be heard as palatalized [kʲ, ɡʲ] when before front vowels.

Vowels

References