29952 Baale 10000-99999 "Baale is spoken along the Ethio-Sudanese border by approximately 9,000 people, of whom around 5,000 probably are living in the southwestern corner of Ethiopia, in the Bench-Maji zone of the Southern Region. The name Baale is the self-name of the people as well as the name of the language." A Comparative Study of the Phonetics and Phonology of Surmic Languages Off ~9,000 10000-99999