Alternate Names: Amaarro, Amarro, Badittu, Haro, Harro, Koore, Koyra, Kwera, Nuna
Dialects: Middle Koorete, North Koorete, South Koorete. Dialects are mutually intelligible. Lexical similarity: 54% with Dorze ,, 53% with Wolaytta ,, 52% with Gofa ,, 49% with Gamo ,, 48% with Dawro ,, 45% with Male ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 157,000 (2007 census), increasing. 84,400 monolinguals (1994 census). L2 users: 2,370.
Language Use: Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Also use Amharic [amh].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 24%. Used in education. NT: 2011.
Typology: SOV.
Writing System: Ethiopic, Latin
Nation of Origin: Ethiopia
Other Comments: Baiso , and Oromo , are replacing Harro on Gidiccho Island (Dimmendaal and Voeltz 2007).