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 | |
| Native to | Ethiopia |
Native speakers | 11 million (2022)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hae |
| Glottolog | east2652 |
According to Ethnologue, there are 11 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
edit- ^ a b c Eastern Oromo at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ 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
edit- Owens, Jonathan. 1985. A grammar of Harar Oromo (Northeastern Ethiopia): including a text and a glossary. Cushitic language studies; Bd. 4) Hamburg: Buske.