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.[2]

Eastern Oromo
Harar[note 1]
RegionEthiopia
Native speakers
(4.5 million cited 1994 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3hae
Glottologeast2652

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.[3]

Notes

  1. Distinguish from Harari language, a South Semitic language

References

  1. Eastern Oromo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. "Languages of Ethiopia", Ethnologue (accessed 7 November 2009)
  3. 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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