ABSTRACT
Harari is the language spoken by the people living inside the walls of the city of Harar in southeastern Ethiopia. The urban area outside the walls is occupied by the Amharic-speaking administrators, teachers, soldiers etc., while the countryside is populated by several aromo-speaking tribes and the Argobba, who nowadays speak aromo, too. The frontier of the Somali-speaking area is some fifty to a hundred kilometers from the city.
