Male language (Ethiopia)

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Male (Ethiopia)
Spoken in: Ethiopia
Total speakers: 53,779 total, 40,660 monolinguals (1998)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Omotic
  North
   Gonga-Gimojan
    Gimojan
     Ometo-Gimira
      Ometo
       Male (Ethiopia)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: mdy

Male is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Omo Region of Ethiopia. [1] It is called Male (Ethiopia) in ISO 639-3 to distinguish it from Male (Papua New Guinea).

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

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