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Overview
Has only a somatic motor (general somatic efferent) component.
Somatic motor Innervates all the intrinsic and most of the extrinsic muscles of the tongue.
CN XII supplies three of the four extrinsic muscles of the tongue including genioglossus, styloglossus, and hyoglossus.
The palatoglossus muscle is supplied by CN X (vagus nerve).
