Male language (Ethiopia)

Male language (Ethiopia)
Male (Ethiopia)
Spoken in Ethiopia
Region Omo region, southeast of Jinka
Native speakers 94,700  (2007 census)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Writing system Ethiopic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mdy

Male (also spelled Maale), is an Omotic language spoken in the Omo Region of Ethiopia by the Male people.[2] It is called Male (Ethiopia) in ISO 639-3 to distinguish it from Male (Papua New Guinea).

Notes

  1. ^ Ethiopia 2007 Census
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

References

  • Van Aswegen, Jacobus. 2008. Language Maintenance and Shift in Ethiopia: The Case of Maale. MA thesis, University of South Africa.

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