Maale language

Maale
Native to Ethiopia
Region Omo region, southeast of Jinka
Native speakers
95,000 (2007 census)[1]
Ethiopic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mdy
Glottolog male1284[2]

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

Notes

  1. Ethiopia 2007 Census Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Male (Ethiopia)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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