Gayil (also called Gayl, Gayi, Galila, Gelila, Northern Ari) is an
Omotic
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 ...
language 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 Er ...
. According to the 2007 census, 55,700 people speak Gayil as a
mother tongue.
Bibliography
* Alemayehu Abebe (2002).
Sociolinguistic survey report on the Ometo dialect of Ethiopia, part IISIL Electronic Survey Reports2002-012.
References
Languages of Ethiopia
Aroid languages
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