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Eastern Oromo language

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Variety of Oromo language spoken in Ethiopia ‹ The template Infobox language is being considered for merging. ›
Eastern Oromo
Eastern Oromia
Native toEthiopia
RegionOromia
Native speakers11 million (2022)
Language familyAfro-Asiatic
Writing systemLatin
Language codes
ISO 639-3hae
Glottologeast2652

Eastern Oromo is a form of the Oromo language spoken in the East Hararghe Zone, West Hararghe Zone and northern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.

According to Ethnologue, there are 11 million speakers of this Oromo form. 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.

References

  1. ^ Eastern Oromo at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. 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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