Gorowa language

Gorowa
Fiome
Native to	Tanzania
Region	Dodoma and Arusha Regions
Ethnicity	Gorowa
Native speakers	50,000 (1999)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic South West Rift NW Rift Iraqwoid Gorowa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`gow`
Glottolog	`goro1270`^[2]

Gorowa is a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania in the Dodoma and Manyara Regions.^[1]

Notes

1 2 Gorowa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gorowa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of Tanzania

Official languages

Indigenous
languages

Bantu

Northeast
Bantu

Bena–Kinga	Bena Hehe Kinga Kisi Manda Pangwa Sangu Vwanji

Chaga	Central Kilimanjaro Gweno Rombo Rusa West Kilimanjaro

Great Lakes	Ha Hangaza Ikizu Ikoma Jita Kabwa Kara Kerewe Kuria Kwaya Ngoreme Nyambo Suba-Simbiti Sumbwa Vinza Zanaki Zinza

Kikuyu–Kamba	Sonjo

Northeast Coast	Digo Doe Gogo Kagulu Kami Kutu Kwere Luguru Ngulu Sagara Shambala Vidunda Zaramo

Takama	Holoholo Iramba Isanzu Kimbu Nyamwezi Sukuma Turu

Other Bantu

Other

Sign languages

Tanzanian sign languages

Cushitic languages

Beja

Beja

Agaw

Highland East

Lowland East

Saho–Afar	Afar Saho

Oromoid	Borana Eastern Oromo Orma Oromo Waata

Konsoid	Bussa Dirasha Gato Konso Mashile Turo

(West) Omo–Tana	Arbore Daasanach El Molo

Rendille–Boni	Baiso Boni Rendille

Somali	Dabarre Garre Jiiddu Maay Somali Ashraf Benadiri Tunni

Other	Boon Dahalo Girirra Ongota Yaaku

Dullay

South

Italics indicate extinct languages

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