Eastern Oromo language

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

Eastern Oromo
Eastern Oromia
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Oromia
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

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. Eastern Oromo at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
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.