Soddo (autonym kəstane Christian; formerly called Aymälläl in Western sources after a particular dialect of it) is a Gurage language spoken by a quarter million people in southeastern Ethiopia. It is a South Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily. Its native speakers the Soddo Gurage people live predominately in the Soddo woreda of the Gurage Zone.
ISO 639-3 code
gru
family
Semitic languages, South Semitic languages, Ethiopian Semitic languages
spoken in
Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Gurage Zone, Ethiopia
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