Alternate Names: Southern Mao
Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 53% with Shekkacho ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 500 (1990 SIL). Ethnic population: 1,000 (1990 SIL).
Language Use: Most have shifted to Western Oromo [gaz] (Dimmendaal and Voeltz 2007). Older adults. Also use Amharic [amh].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 5%.
Typology: SOV.
Writing System: Unwritten
Nation of Origin: Ethiopia