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Harari

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: har

Population	21,300 (1994 census). 2,351 monolinguals. 20,000 in Addis Ababa, outside Harar City (Hetzron 1997:486). Ethnic population: 21,757 (1994 census).
Region	East, walled city of Harar; Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa.
Language map	Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia, reference number 36
Alternate names	Adare, Adarinnya, Adere, Aderinya, Gey Sinan, Hararri
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, South, Ethiopian, South, Transversal, Harari-East Gurage
Language use	7,766 L2 speakers. Positive attitude.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 81.3%. Dictionary.
Writing system	Ethiopic script.
Comments	SOV. Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Gardner, Simon and Ralph Siebert. 1994. "Second S. L. L. E. survey of the Zay language area."

Gardner, Simon and Ralph Siebert. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Zay language area."  

Unseth, Peter. 2003. "Surveying bi-consonantal reduplication in Semitic."