Mire language
| Mire | |
|---|---|
| Mulgi | |
| Native to | Chad |
| Region | Southwest |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2011)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mvh |
| Glottolog |
mire1238[2] |
Mire, or Mulgi, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the southwestern Chadian prefectures of Tandjile Prefecture and Lai Prefecture.[1] Most of the speakers, who generally practice traditional religions or Christianity, speak Ndam (65% lexical similarity) or Kimré (32% lexical similarity) as a second language.
References
- 1 2 Mire at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mire". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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