Dorze language

Dorze language
"DOZ" redirects here. For the unit of amount, see Doz.
Dorze
Spoken in Ethiopia
Native speakers 20,782, including 9,905 monolinguals (1998)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 doz

Dorze is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of Ethiopia.[1] Alemayehu Abebe reports that while performing preliminary fieldwork in 1992, he found 14 kebeles in Chencha woreda with Dorze speakers.[2]

Notes

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

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