Maale language

Maale
	Male
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	South Omo, southeast of Jinka
Native speakers	105.000 (2010 census)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Ometo Maale; ; ; ;
Writing system	Ethiopic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mdy
Glottolog	male1284
ELP	Malé[2]

Maale (also spelled Male) is an Omotic language spoken in the Omo Region of Ethiopia. The Maale people are maintaining their language vigorously, despite exposure to outside pressures and languages.[3]

Notes

www.galataministries.org Ethiopia 2007 Census Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
Endangered Languages Project data for Malé.
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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[1] www.galataministries.org Ethiopia 2007 Census Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine

[ELP1-2] Endangered Languages Project data for Malé.

[3] Aswegen, Kobus van. 2008. The maintenance of Maale in Ethiopia. Language Matters : Studies in the Languages of Africa 39(1): 29-48.