Koorete (also Amaarro, Amarro, Badittu, Koore, Koyra, Kwera, Nuna) is the language spoken by the
Koore people
The Koore (also known as the Koorete) are an ethnic group whose homeland lies in southern Ethiopia. According to Amaro Zone Administration, there are 350,000 members in this group, of whom 8.3% are urban inhabitants.
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Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
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Notes
Bibliography
*Hayward, Richard. 1982. Notes on the Koyra Language. ''Afrika und Übersee'' 65: pp. 211–268.
*Mendisu, Binyam Sisay. 2010. ''Aspects of Koorete Verb Morphology''. Köppe: Cologne.
*Theil, Rolf. 2011. Koorete segmental phonology. ''Journal of African Languages and Linguistics'' 32: pp. 275–306.
*Theil. Rolf. 2013. Koorete tonology. Pp. 167–174 in: ''Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic Languages, Paris, 16–18 April 2008''. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
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KooreteWebsite maintained by the language community, includes published literature in the Koore language
Languages of Ethiopia
North Omotic languages
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