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.[2]
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Eastern Oromia | |
Region | Ethiopia |
Native speakers | (4.5 million[dubious – discuss] cited 1994 census)[1] |
Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | hae |
Glottolog | east2652 |
According to Ethnologue, a 1994 census reported 4,530,000 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.[3]
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