Af-Maay
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| Maay or Maay Maay | ||
|---|---|---|
| af Maay | ||
| Spoken in | Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya significant communities in North America, and Yemen. | |
| Total speakers | 1,5-2 million native and at least 200,000 second language speakers. | |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in | Somalia | |
| Regulated by | No official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | so | |
| ISO 639-2 | ||
| ISO 639-3 | ymm | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Maay (also known as Af Maay, Afmaay, Af-May arti, Af-May, Af-Maymay, Rahanween, Rahanweyn) is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family and is written using the Latin alphabet. It is spoken mostly in Somalia and adjacent parts of Ethiopia and Kenya. Its speakers are known as Sab Somalis. The capital of the language is Baidoa.
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