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Native Speakers Worldwide

20,151

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Language Information By Source

1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Results at Country Level
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

20,151

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

20181

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

1998

Location and Context

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Government support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

20,200

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

20,189

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

There are 13,264 monolinguals. Data for the number of native speakers and the ethnic population come from the 1994 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Coordinates

6.950294,37.025083

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Other writing systems

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Year of info

1994

Location and Context

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

58,039

Non-monolingual speakers

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No data

Year of info

2002

Location and Context

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Government support

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Non-monolingual speakers

Almost all

More about speakers

"The Melo population totals about 98,000 in the Laha Woreda (district) alone."

Year of info

2002

Location and Context

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Other languages used

Amharic, Gofa, Basketto, English, Sidamo, Oromo

Domains of other languages

Gofa largely used in public life; Gofa or Amharic are used when speaking emotionally; Gofa is used more often in the family than Malo

More on context

"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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Year of info

2001

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Year of info

2003

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  1. 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
    2012. "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."
  2. Sociolinguistic survey report of the Melo (Malo) and Mursi languages of Ethiopia
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  6. Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia
    Aklilu, Yilma and Ralph Siebert. 2002. "Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi Languages of Ethiopia." pt. 1: 11. SIL International.
  7. 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Results at Country Level
    1998. "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
  8. 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/
  9. 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