Lowland East Cushitic branch containing Oromo and Konsoid dialects
Oromoid
Oromo–Konsoid
Geographic distribution
Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya
Linguistic classification
Afro-Asiatic
Cushitic
Lowland East Cushitic
Oromoid
Subdivisions
Oromo
Konsoid
Glottolog
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The Oromoid languages are a branch of Lowland East Cushitic languages that includes the most populous Cushitic language, Oromo, and the closely related Konsoid dialect cluster.
The Oromoidlanguages are a branch of Lowland East Cushitic languages that includes the most populous Cushitic language, Oromo, and the closely related...
(2020:297): Lowland East Cushitic Saho–Afar Southern Nuclear Omo–Tana Oromoid Peripheral (?) Dullay Yaaku Highland East Cushitic is a coordinate (sister)...
The languages of Ethiopia include the official languages of Ethiopia, its national and regional languages, and a large number of minority languages, as...
speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million...
Testament was published in the Konso language in 2002. Unlike its Oromoid relatives and most East African languages in general, Konso distinguishes neither...
Endangered Ethiopian Languages, Addis Ababa 27–30 April 2005) Wedekind, Klaus (ed.) (2002) 'Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada (Dullay)...
Cushitic language and among the five languages of Africa with the largest mother-tongue populations. Oromo serves as one of the official working languages of...
Orma is a variety of the Oromo language spoken by the Orma people in Kenya. It is a dialect of Southern Oromo. Orma at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Hoskins...
Eastern Oromo is a form of Oromo language spoken in the East Hararghe Zone, West Hararghe Zone and northern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia...
as a dialect of Orma by Ethnologue. Heine, Bernd (1980). The non-Bantu languages of Kenya. D. Reimer. p. 143. ISBN 9783496001737. Heine, Bernd (1981)....
sentence ʔáaf-ti could mean 'I'. This system is quite different from languages like English, which use independent subject pronouns (I, you, he, she...
of the many Oromo languages spoken amongst Ethiopians and Kenyans. Boraana Oromo (Southern Oromo) derives from the Afrosiatic language family whilst belonging...
hunter-gatherers. They share the name Sanye with the neighboring Dahalo. The current language of the Waata may be a dialect of Orma or otherwise Southern Oromo. However...