Eastern_Oromo_language

Eastern Oromo language

Eastern Oromo language

Variety of Oromo language spoken in Ethiopia

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]

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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

  1. [1]
    Eastern Oromo at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    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

  • Owens, Jonathan. 1985. A grammar of Harar Oromo (Northeastern Ethiopia): including a text and a glossary. Cushitic language studies; Bd. 4) Hamburg: Buske.


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