alternate_names: "Bambassi; Bambeshi; Siggoyo; Amam; Fadiro; Northern Mao; Didessa; Mao of Diddesa; Bambessi Mao; Didessa Mao;",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Afro-Asiatic; Omotic; Mao",
dialect_varieties: "Kere; Bambassi;",
public_comment: ""Northern Mao, also known by the toponyms Bambassi and Diddesa, is one of the least documented Omotic languages (Bender 2000:180). A Mao language of the Omotic family, a subclass of the Afroasiatic phylum (Bender 1985; 2000; 2003; Hayward 2000), the language is spoken by an estimated 5,000 speakers (Siebert et al. 1993)"",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
{
id:8970,
code_id:4741,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "5,000",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1982).",