Maale language
| Maale | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | Omo region, southeast of Jinka |
Native speakers | 94,700 (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 Maale people.[3] It is called Male (Ethiopia) in ISO 639-3 to distinguish it from Male (Papua New Guinea).
The Maale people are maintaining their language vigorously, despite exposure to outside pressures and languages.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Ethiopia 2007 Census Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Male (Ethiopia)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ↑ Aswegen, Kobus van. 2008. The maintenance of Maale in Ethiopia. Language Matters : Studies in the Languages of Africa 39(1): 29-48.
References
- Van Aswegen, Jacobus. 2008. Language Maintenance and Shift in Ethiopia: The Case of Maale. MA thesis, University of South Africa.
External links
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on Maale
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