Eastern Oromo language

Eastern Oromo is a form of Oromo language spoken in the East Hararghe Zone, West Hararghe Zone and northern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.[1]

Eastern Oromo
Eastern Oromia
RegionEthiopia
Native speakers
9.7 million (2018)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3hae
Glottologeast2652

According to [Ethnologue], there are 10 million speakers of this Oromo form.[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.[2]

References

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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