Malo
Melo; Mello;
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There are 13,264 monolinguals. Data for the number of native speakers and the ethnic population come from the 1994 census.
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"The Melo population totals about 98,000 in the Laha Woreda (district) alone."
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Amharic, Gofa, Basketto, English, Sidamo, Oromo
Gofa largely used in public life; Gofa or Amharic are used when speaking emotionally; Gofa is used more often in the family than Malo
"Languages which are acquired by children before they start school include Gofa and Basketto. But, interestingly, none of the children have learned Melo as their first language! [...] Gofa is the language which is used by approximately forty-five percent of the interviewees when they speak with their family members; Melo by approximately twenty-five percent, Amharic by approximately twenty percent, and Basketto by approximately ten percent."
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Malo: An Unknown Ometo LanguageAbebe, Alemayehu. 1994. "Malo: An Unknown Ometo Language." In New Trends in Ethiopian Studies: Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Michigan State university, 5-10 September 1994, edited by Harold G. Marcus. 1065-1084. Lawrenceville, New Jersey: Red Sea Press.
- 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Results at Country Level1998. "1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Results At Country Level." 1: Central Statistical Office. Online: https://www.msu.edu/~hudson/Ethlgslist.htm.https://www.msu.edu/~hudson/Ethlgslist.htm
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.http://llmap.org
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