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 639-3:	`har`
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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 the East Gurage languages, Zay and Silt'e.

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

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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.