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 Omotic North Gonga–Gimojan Gimojan Ometo–Gimira Ometo Male (Ethiopia)
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

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

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