Massa
Masana
Spoken in: Chad, Cameroon
Total speakers: 230,000
Language family: Tafrusyawit
 Chadic
  Masa
   North
    Massa
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: mcn
Massa
Masana
Native to Chad, Cameroon
Native speakers
(230,000 cited 1982–2006)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mcn
Glottolog masa1322  Masana



gize1234  Gizey



hama1241  Ham

Massa (ma ọ bụ Masana, Masa) bụ asụsụ Chad nke ndị Masa na-asụ n'ebe ndịda Chad na n'ebe ugwu Cameroon. Ọ nwere ihe dị ka 200,000 ọkà okwu.

Asụsụ ndị a bụ Bongor, Bugudum (Budugum), Domo, Gizay, Gumay, Ham, Walia, Wina (Viri), Yagwa.

Kim, asụsụ agbata obi, bụ nke e kewapụrụ dị ka Masa.

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A na-asụ Masa n'akụkụ ndịda nke ngalaba Mayo-Danay na Far North Region, na mpaghara Yagoua, Kalfou, Wina, Yele, na Guéré.[2]

A na-asụ Central Masa n'akụkụ Osimiri Logone, nke nwere ụdị anọ. Ụdị dị iche iche, dị ka edepụtara site n'ebe ugwu ruo n'ebe ndịda, bụ: Yagwa (asụ na Yagoua), Domo (n'obodo Domo), Walya, na Buguëum.[2]

Asụsụ Muzuk, nke a na-ewere dị ka Asụsụ Munjuk (ALCAM 1983), bụ n'ezie Asụsụ Masa ebe ọ bụ na ọ na-aghọta ya na ụdị Masa ndị ọzọ (Ousmanou 2007). Ndị na-asụ Muzuk na-asụsụ abụọ, ma na-asọpụta olumba Muzuk nke Masa, yana Munjuk. A na-asụ ya n'ebe ndị kpọrọ nkụ nke West (Guidigis, Mayo-Kani, Far North Region).[2]

A na-asụ Masa na Cameroon na Chad, na ndị na-asụrụ ya 103,000 na Cameroon.[2]

  1. Massa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 (2012) in Binam Bikoi: Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM), Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in fr). Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.  Kpọpụta njehie: Invalid <ref> tag; name "ALCAM2012" defined multiple times with different content