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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.
• /xʷ/ may also have an allophone of .
• /b/ may have an allophone of in postvocalic and intervocalic positions.
• /n/ may assimilate to when following a velar consonant.
• /k, ɡ/ can also be heard as palatalized when before front vowels.

Vowels

References

1. Mesqan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Shafi, Ousman; Meyer, Ronny (2016). Mesqan.
3. Eshetu, Meseret (2012). Tense, aspect and mood in Mesqan. Addis Ababa University. pp. 19–20.
4. Getachew, Alemayehu (2011). Mesqan folktales: A contribution to the documentation of the Mesqan language. Addis Ababa University. pp. 10–11.

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