Eastern Oromo language

Eastern Oromo
Harar[1]
Region Ethiopia
Native speakers
4.5 million (1994 census)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 hae
Glottolog east2652[3]

Eastern Oromo (also known as "Ittu Oromo" or "Qottu Oromo") is a dialect of the Oromo language. It is spoken in the Mirab Hararghe Zone, Misraq Hararghe Zone and northern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.[4]

According to Ethnologue, a 1994 census reported 4,530,000 speakers of this dialect.[2] 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.[5]

References

  1. Distinguish Harari
  2. 1 2 Eastern Oromo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eastern Oromo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. "Languages of Ethiopia", Ethnologue (accessed 7 November 2009)
  5. 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1, part 1, Tables 2.15 (accessed 6 April 2009)

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