Soddo language

Soddo
Soddo
Kəstane
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Gurage Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
Ethnicity	Soddo
Native speakers	(260,000 cited 1994 census)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Outer South North Gurage Soddo; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Soddo; Goggot (Dobi);
Writing system	Geʽez script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gru
Glottolog	kist1241

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 an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily. Its native speakers, the Soddo Gurage people (Kistane), live predominantly in the Soddo district of the Gurage Zone.^{[citation needed]}

^ Soddo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[e18-1] Soddo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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