Harari language

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Harari
Spoken in: Ethiopia: Harari Region
Total speakers: 21,283 (1998 census)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Semitic
  South
   Ethiopian
    South
     Transversal
      Harari-East Gurage
       Harari
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: sem
ISO/FDIS 639-3: har

Harari (sometimes (H)aderi or (H)adere) is the language of the Harari people of Ethiopia. According to the 1998 Ethiopian census, it is spoken by 21,283 people. Most of its speakers are multilingual in Amharic and/or Oromo. Harari is closely related to Zay and Silt'e.

Originally written in the Arabic script, it has recently converted to the Ge'ez alphabet.

[edit] References

  • Abdurahman Garad and Ewald Wagner. 1998. Harari-Studien : Texte mit Übersetzung, grammatischen Skizzen und Glossar. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-03937-X. [1]
  • Gardner, Simon and Ralph Siebert. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Zay language area." SIL Electronic Survey Reports, 2002-024. PDF
  • Cohen, Marcel. 1931. Etudes d'éthiopien méridional. Paris. pp. 243-354.
  • Leslau, Wolf. 1958. The verb in Harari : (South Ethiopic). Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Leslau, Wolf. 1965. Ethiopians speak. Studies in cultural background. Part I: Harari. Near Eastern Studies, no. 7. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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Modern Semitic languages
Amharic | Arabic | Chaha | Harari | Hebrew | Inor | Maltese |
Neo-Aramaic | Silt'e | Soddo | South Arabian | Syriac | Tigre | Tigrinya


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