Dorze language

Dorze
Native to Ethiopia
Native speakers
21,000, including 9,900 monolinguals  (1994 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 doz
Glottolog dorz1235[2]

Dorze is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of Ethiopia.[3] Alemayehu Abebe reports that while performing preliminary fieldwork in 1992, he found 14 kebeles in Chencha woreda with Dorze speakers.[4]

Notes

  1. Dorze at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dorze". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Dorze", Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. Alemayehu Abebe, "Ometo Dialect Pilot Survey Report" SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-068

See also