Gayil language

Gayil
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Southwest, South Omo zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region
Native speakers	56,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic South Gayil
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gyl
Glottolog	gayi1237[2]

Gayil (also called Gayl, Gayi, Galila, Gelila, Northern Ari) is an Omotic language of Ethiopia. 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 II", SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2002-012.

References

1. Gayil at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gayil". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.