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Blue Nile Mao

4 languages

Blue Nile Mao is a language family of 4 languages; the most are spoken in Ethiopia and Sudan.

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Most of the Mao languages ​​belong to the Omotic languages within the Afro-Asiatic language family. Highland Gwama is the only Koman language belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family whose speakers call themselves Mao. Speakers of the other related Koman languages ​​of the area, Lowland Gwama and Komo (as well as Uduk and Opo) do not self-identify as Mao

The Omotic Mao languages which are spoken in Ethiopia and parts of Sudancan be classified as follows:

Bambasi, spoken in the Bambasi woreda of Benishangul-Gumuz Region,

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West Mao3
Hozo-Seze2

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