Maale people

The Maale people (also spelled Male; pronounced /ˈmɑːle/) of South Omo Zone are a small ethnic group of approximately 22,000 population in 2025(Maale Woreda Office of Finance and Plan Development, 2025). The Maale people are predominantly pastoralists who raise large herds of cattle for dairy production and wealth storage and Agro-pastoralists who are producing large quantity of maize, Ground nut, Sorghum etc. It is located in the Southern Ethiopia Regional States of Ethiopia bordered in the north with both Gamo Zone and Gofa Zone and south with BennaTsemay Woreda of the South Omo Zone, in the Eeast with Aleze Zone and in West with Ari Zone of Ethiopia.

The Maale people are maintaining their language vigorously, despite exposure to outside pressures and languages.

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