Dorze language

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Dorze
Native toEthiopia
Native speakers
(21,000, including 9,900 monolinguals cited 1994 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3doz
Glottologdorz1235

Dorze is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of Ethiopia.[2] Alemayehu Abebe reports that while performing preliminary fieldwork in 1992, he found 14 kebeles in Chencha woreda with Dorze speakers.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Dorze at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. "Dorze", Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  3. ^ Alemayehu Abebe, "Ometo Dialect Pilot Survey Report" SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-068

See also