Karo language (Ethiopia)
Karo (also Cherre, Kere, Kerre) 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 neighbor, Hamer-Banna, with a lexical similarity of 81%,[1] and is considered a dialect of Hamer by Blench (2006),[3] but as a separate language belonging to the Hamer-Karo subfamily in Glottolog.
| Karo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | South Omo Region |
Native speakers | 1,500 (2007 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kxh |
| Glottolog | karo1297[2] |
A Karo village
A young Karo woman
Notes
- Karo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Karo (Ethiopia)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List
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