Dorze language

Afroasiatic language spoken by Dorze people in southern Ethiopia
Dorze
Native toEthiopia
Native speakers
(21,000, including 9,900 monolinguals cited 1994 census)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
  • Omotic
    • North Omotic
      • Ometo
        • North
          • Dorze
Language codes
ISO 639-3doz
Glottologdorz1235

Dorze is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of Ethiopia.[1] Alemayehu Abebe reports that while performing preliminary fieldwork in 1992, he found 14 kebeles in Chencha woreda with Dorze speakers.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Dorze at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Alemayehu Abebe, "Ometo Dialect Pilot Survey Report" SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-068

See also

  • Dorze people


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