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Name: Massalat
Type: Language
Alternate Name: Mesalit
Spoken in: Chad
Number of speakers: 10 (1991 R. Blench). Ethnic population: 29,836 (1993 census) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 10 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 10 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: mdg
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Nilo-Saharan
Parent Subgroup: Masalit (masl)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Critically endangered
Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct
Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered

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