Karo language

Karo language

language
name=Karo (Ethiopia)
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Ethiopia
region=South Omo Region
speakers=200 (1998)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Omotic
fam3=South Omotic
iso3=kxh

Karo is an Omotic language spoken in the Debub (South) Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia. Karo is described as being closely related to its neighbors, Hamer and Banna, with a lexical similarity of 81%. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

In ISO 639-3 there is also a [http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=arr Karo (Brazil)] , so [http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=kxh Karo (Ethiopia)] is used to distinguish this language from that one.

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kxh Ethnologue entry for Karo]


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