Karo people (Ethiopia)

Karo
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	South Omo Region
Native speakers	1,500 (2007 census)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic South Omotic Hamer Karo
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	`karo1297`

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).