MUSKUM: a n extinct language of Chad

The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.

SIL code: MJE

ISO 639-2: afa

Region West, Mayo-Kebbi Prefecture, Bongor Subprefecture. Along the Logone River, west of Guélengdeng, village of Muskum (Mouskoun), 10 km. north of Katoa.
Alternate names   MUZGUM
Classification Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, Biu-Mandara, B, B.2.
Comments 40% lexical similarity with Musgu. There was 1 speaker in 1976. Because of intermarriage, speakers eventually shifted to the Vulum dialect of Musgu. Extinct.

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