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Dorze language

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Native to
  
Ethiopia

Glottolog
  
dorz1235

ISO 639-3
  
doz

Native speakers
  
21,000, including 9,900 monolinguals (1994 census)

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Omotic Ometo North Dorze

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

References

Dorze language Wikipedia