Old Harari is a literary language of the city of Harar, a central hub of Islam in Horn of Africa.

Palatal Wolf Leslau discusses Harari–East Gurage phonology and grammar:[11] The noun has two numbers, singular and plural.

and this forms the second process: The third and the most common way of expressing sex is by means of korma 'male or man' and inistí 'woman, female', corresponding to English "he-" and "she-": The affixed pronouns or possessives attached to nouns are: Singular.

A unique and noteworthy feature of this script is that it indicates stressed syllables in an explicit manner, as explained in the following section.

Harari can be written in the unmodified Ethiopic script as most vowel differences can be disambiguated from context.

[16][17] Yîbe amânbe waldâchzina ûga zilahadube, 1999be bâdbe (ḣararbe) hukûmazina sabi harfibe sinânzinâw maktable murti huluf zâshasa igʼgnâchum fîtzanâw azzo garab gargab âshna.

Yakhnimâm qâcibe zilêqu waldâchuw sabi harfîw matlêmad ôrkut tâb khânama agagnnêw.