Maale (also spelled Male) is an

Omotic language The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region. The Ge'ez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have com ...

spoken in the Omo Region of

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

. The

Maale people The Maale people (also spelled Male; pronounced /ˈmɑːli/), are a small ethnic group of approximately 95,000 located in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region at the border between north and south Omo of Ethiopia Ethiopia ...

are maintaining their language vigorously, despite exposure to outside pressures and languages.Aswegen, Kobus van. 2008. The maintenance of Maale in Ethiopia. ''Language Matters : Studies in the Languages of Africa'' 39(1): 29-48.

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References

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

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