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Dirasha
Ghidole, Diraasha, Dirayta, Gidole, Gardulla, Dhirasha
Spoken in: Ethiopia 
Region: Omo Region, in the hills west of Lake Chamo, around Gidole town. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page
Total speakers: 50,328, 41,685 monolinguals (1998 census), 1,974 second-language speakers
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Cushitic
  East
   Konso-Gidole
    Dirasha
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: gdl

Dirasha (also known as Ghidole, Diraasha, Dirayta, Gidole, Gardulla, Dhirasha) is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a Language family with about 375 languages ( SIL estimate and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa It is spoken in Ethiopia in the Omo Region, in the hills west of Lake Chamo, around Gidole town. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page Lake Chamo ( Chamo Hayk in Amharic) is a Lake in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region of southern Ethiopia. Gidole is a town in southern Ethiopia, and is the administrative center of the Dirashe special Woreda. Many speakers also use Oromo or Komso. The Konso language (also Komso or Conso) is an East Cushitic language spoken in southwest Ethiopia.

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