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"DOZ" redirects here. For the unit of amount, see Doz. Afroasiatic language spoken by Dorze people in southern Ethiopia ‹ The template Infobox language is being considered for merging. ›
Dorze
Native toEthiopia
EthnicityDorze
Native speakers(21,000, including 9,900 monolinguals cited 1994 census)
Language familyAfro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3doz
Glottologdorz1235

Dorze is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of Ethiopia. Alemayehu Abebe reports that while performing preliminary fieldwork in 1992, he found 14 kebeles in Chencha woreda with Dorze speakers.

Notes

  1. ^ Dorze at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Alemayehu Abebe, "Ometo Dialect Pilot Survey Report" SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-068

See also

Languages of Ethiopia
Official languages
Regional
languages
Ethiosemitic
Cushitic
Omotic
Nilo-Saharan
Foreign languages
Sign languages
Omotic languages
Aroid
Dizoid
Mao
North
Omotic
Gonga
Ometo
Central
East
Others
Others
Italics indicate extinct languages


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