Eastern Oromo language

Eastern Oromo
Eastern Oromia
Native toEthiopia
Native speakers
11 million (2022)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3hae
Glottologeast2652

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]

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]

  1. ^ a b c Eastern Oromo at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  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)