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Murle language

Murle (ISO 639-3 code mur) is a language of the Surmic family spoken in Ethiopia and South Sudan. It has about 60,200 speakers. The Endangered Languages Project lists it as vulnerable.

Facts

ISO 639-3 codemur
Glottocodemurl1244
FamilySurmic
AreaAfrica
CountriesEthiopia, South Sudan
Speakers (estimate)60,200
EndangermentVulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Related languages

Other Surmic languages, nearest first.

More about Murle

Classification, area and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Endangerment status and speaker estimate: Endangered Languages Project. Speaker numbers are estimates and differ between sources.