Ta-Ne-Omotic · ISO 639-3 gmv
Gamo Language
Gamo is a Ta-Ne-Omotic language spoken by about 1.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Gamo is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Gamo language
Gamo is spoken by about 1.1 million people, which makes it the 446th most spoken language in the world — just behind Irish (1.1 million) and ahead of Gorontalo (1.1 million). It belongs to the Ta-Ne-Omotic language family and, more precisely, to the Dawro-Gofa-Gamo group within the North-West Ometo branch.
Where is Gamo spoken?
Gamo is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Ethiopia (1.1 million).
Gamo is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Gamo is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Wolaytta.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gmv.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.