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Where is Dorze spoken?

Dorze is a Ta-Ne-Omotic language, spoken in Ethiopia. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Dorze is spoken

Dorze is spoken in one country: Ethiopia.

Country
Ethiopia

On the map, Dorze is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Dorze.

How many people speak Dorze?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Dorze sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Dorze as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Ta-Ne-Omotic
  2. Ometo
  3. North-West Ometo
  4. Central Ometo
  5. Dorze

Related languages

Other languages in the Central Ometo group:

More about Dorze

Codes: ISO 639-3 doz, Glottolog dorz1235. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.

Questions about Dorze

Where is Dorze spoken?

Dorze is spoken in Ethiopia. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Dorze in?

Glottolog places Dorze in the Ta-Ne-Omotic family, in the branch Ometo, North-West Ometo and Central Ometo.

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