Male language (Ethiopia)
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| Male (Ethiopia) | ||
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| Spoken in | Ethiopia | |
| Total speakers | 53,779 total, 40,660 monolinguals (1998) | |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | mdy | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Male (also spelled Maale), is an Omotic 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).
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[edit] References
- Van Aswegen, Jacobus. 2008. Language Maintenance and Shift in Ethiopia: The Case of Maale. MA thesis, University of South Africa.
- Ethnologue entry for Male
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