Maale (also spelled Male) is an
Omotic language 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 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.]
Notes
References
* Van Aswegen, Jacobus. 2008. ''Language Maintenance and Shift in Ethiopia: The Case of Maale.'' MA thesis, University of South Africa.
External links
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World Atlas of Language Structures
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Maale
Languages of Ethiopia
North Omotic languages
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