Karo language
For other languages, see Karo § Languages.
| Karo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | South Omo Region |
Native speakers | 1,500 (2007 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
kxh |
| Glottolog |
karo1297[2] |
A Karo village
A young Karo woman
Karo (also Cherre, Kere, Kerre) is an Omotic language spoken in the Debub (South) Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia. Karo is described as being closely related to its neighbors, Hamer and Banna, with a lexical similarity of 81%,[1] and is considered a dialect of Hamer by Blench (2006).[3]
Notes
- 1 2 Karo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Karo (Ethiopia)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List
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