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Preferred term

walWalamo  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Wolaytta is an Omotic language spoken in the Wolaita Zone and some parts of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia. The number of speakers of this language is estimated at 2,000,000 (1991 UBS); it is the native language of the Welayta people. The estimates of the population vary greatly because it is not agreed where the boundaries of the language are.

Entry terms

  • Wolaitta
  • Wolaytta
  • Wolaytta language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • wal

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • wal

ISO 639-3 code

  • wal

Notation

  • wal

In other languages

  • walamo

    French

  • Wolaytta

    German

  • Walamo-Sprache
  • walamo

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • walamo

    Spanish

  • Idioma welayta

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/wal

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