| Koorete | |
| States: | Ethiopia |
| Region: | East of Lake Chamo |
| Date: | 2007 census |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Fam2: | Omotic |
| Fam3: | North |
| Fam4: | Ometo |
| Fam5: | East |
| Script: | Ethiopic, Latin |
| Iso3: | kqy |
| Glotto: | koor1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Koorete |
Koorete (also Amaarro, Amarro, Badittu, Koore, Koyra, Kwera, Nuna) is the language spoken by the Koore people of southern Ethiopia.
Language definition:
Koorete is an omotic language of the Afro-Asiatic linguistics. The omotic language family consists of around 25 to 30 languages or dialects, it is mostly divided into Eastern omotic and western omotic.
The Koorete belongs to the western omotic languages.
The western Omotic languages are divided into two branches, the Kafa-Gimojan languages and Maji languages.[2]
The people of Koorete language:
Koore is the name of the people who are the native speakers of the Koorete Language. A member of the ethnic group is koore and by adding the suffix -te to the ethnic name we get the language name Koorete.
The Koorete Speakers are also known as Koyra,Badittu,Amarro and Nuna.
Most of the Koore people reside in the Amaaro mountains east of Lake Abbaya,Ethiopia. Koorete is also spoken on Gidicho Island in Lake Abbaya.
Most of the Koorete people are Christianity followers although there are some groups of traditional animist religion followers, they are in danger of extinction due to the spread of Christianity.https://www.academia.edu/338465/Koorete_Tonology[3]