Eastern Oromo language
Eastern Oromo is a dialect of the Oromo language. It is spoken in the East Hararghe Zone, West Hararghe Zone and northern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.[3]
| Eastern Oromo | |
|---|---|
| Harar[note 1] | |
| Region | Ethiopia |
Native speakers | (4.5 million cited 1994 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hae |
| Glottolog | east2652[2] |
According to Ethnologue, a 1994 census reported 4,530,000 speakers of this dialect.[1] However, the 1994 Ethiopian national census did not break down language speakers according to dialect, although it reported 2,570,293 speakers of Oromo in those two zones.[4]
Notes
- Distinguish from Harari language, a South Semitic language
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References
- Eastern Oromo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastern Oromo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "Languages of Ethiopia", Ethnologue (accessed 7 November 2009)
- 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1, part 1 Archived November 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.15 (accessed 6 April 2009)
Literature
- Owens, Jonathan. 1985. A grammar of Harar Oromo (Northeastern Ethiopia): including a text and a glossary. Cushitic language studies; Bd. 4) Hamburg: Buske.
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