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Eastern Oromo language

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Eastern Oromo
Eastern Oromia
Native to	Ethiopia
Native speakers	11 million (2022)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Oromoid Oromo Eastern Oromo
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`hae`
Glottolog	`east2652`

Eastern Oromo is a form of Oromo language spoken in the East Hararghe Zone, West Hararghe Zone and northern Bale Zone of the Oromia RegionofEthiopia.^[1]

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 OromoatEthnologue (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.