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 and southeastern Sudan in Blue Nile State. The Geʽez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. T ...

language of

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

. According to the 2007 census, 55,700 people speak Gayil as a

mother tongue A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. In some countries, the term ''native language'' or ''mother tongue'' refers ...

Bibliography

* Alemayehu Abebe (2002).
Sociolinguistic survey report on the Ometo dialect of Ethiopia, part II

SIL Electronic Survey Reports
2002-012.

References

Languages of Ethiopia Aroid languages {{AfroAsiatic-lang-stub