Eastern Oromo language

Eastern Oromo is a dialect of the Oromo language widely spoken in the East Hararghe Zone, West Hararghe Zone and northern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.^[1]

Eastern Oromo
Afaan Oromoo Bahaa
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Oromia
Native speakers	11 million (2022)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Oromoid Oromo Eastern Oromo
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hae
Glottolog	east2652

According to Ethnologue, there are 11 million speakers of this Oromo form.^[1] However, the 1994 Ethiopian national census did not break down language speakers according to dialect, although it reported 2,570,293 speakers of Oromo in those two zones.^[2]