Native to Ethiopia Native speakers 1,500 (2007 census) Glottolog karo1297 | Region South Omo Region ISO 639-3 kxh | |
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Language family Afro-Asiatic
Omotic
South Omotic
Hamer
Karo | ||
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 neighbors, Hamer and Banna, with a lexical similarity of 81%, and is considered a dialect of Hamer by Blench (2006).
References
Karo language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA