Oyda language

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Oyda
Native to Ethiopia
RegionNorthwest Omo Region
Native speakers
37,000 (2007 census) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 oyd
Glottolog oyda1235 [2]

Oyda is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of Ethiopia. [1]

The 2007 Census of Ethiopia [3] lists 45,120 individuals for the ethnic group.

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References

  1. 1 2 Oyda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Oyda". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. http://www.csa.gov.et/