| Harari | |
|---|---|
| ሀረሪ (hăräri) | |
 | |
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | Harari Region |
| Ethnicity | 32,000 Harari (2007 census)[1] |
| Speakers | L1: 27,000 (2007 census)[2][3][4] L2: 8,300[2] |
| Harari alphabet (Ge'ez script) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | har |
| Glottolog | hara1271 |
Harari is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken by the Harari people of Ethiopia. Old Harari is a literary language of the city of Harar, a central hub of Islam in Horn of Africa.[5] According to the 2007 Ethiopian census, it is spoken by 25,810 people. Harari is closely related to the Eastern Gurage languages, Zay, and Silt'e, all of whom are believed to be linked to the now extinct Semitic Harla language.[6][7] Locals or natives of Harar refer to their language as Gēy Sinan or Gēy Ritma 'language of the City' (Gēy is the word for how Harari speakers refer to the city of Harar, whose name is an exonym).[8] According to Wolf Leslau, Sidama is the substratum language of Harari and influenced the vocabulary greatly.[9] He identified unique Cushitic loanwords found only in Harari and deduced that it may have Cushitic roots.[10]
Harari was originally written with a version of the Arabic script, then the Ethiopic script was adopted to write the language. Some Harari speakers in diaspora write their language with the Latin alphabet.
- ^ Harari at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ a b Harari at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ Ethiopia 2007 Census, p. 115
- ^ 2021 Census of Canada (9 February 2022). "Statistics Canada 2021". Government of Canada. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "himml - Sherif Harar City Museum Manuscripts". October 31, 2024. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
- ^ Gebissa, Eziekel (2004). Leaf of Allah. Ohio State University. p. 36. ISBN 9780852554807. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
- ^ Braukhamper, Ulrich (2002). Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia. LITverlag. p. 18. ISBN 9783825856717. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
- ^ Leslau 1959, p. 276.
- ^ Leslau 1959, p. 290.
- ^ Leslau 1959, pp. 290–291.
