Southern Oromo, or Afaan Oromoo (after one of its dialects), is a variety of Oromo spoken in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya by the Borana people. Günther Schlee also notes that it is the native language of a number of related peoples, such as the Sakuye.[2]
Dialects are Borana proper (Boran, Borena), possibly Arsi (Arussi, Arusi) and Guji (Gujji, Jemjem) in Ethiopia and, in Kenya, Karayu, Salale (Selale), Gabra (Gabbra, Gebra) and possibly Orma and Waata.[citation needed]
The language is locally and commonly known as Afaan Oromoo ("Oromo language").
SouthernOromo, or Afaan Oromoo (after one of its dialects), is a variety of Oromo spoken in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya by the Borana people...
who speak the Oromolanguage (also called Afaan Oromoo or Oromiffa), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are...
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Orma is a variety of the Oromolanguage spoken by the Orma people in Kenya. It is a dialect of SouthernOromo. Orma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
Konso language Dirasha languageOromolanguage (also in Kenya) Transversal Lowland East Cushitic Bussa language Gawwada language Tsamai language Omotic*...
roughly two dozen diverse languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its largest representatives are Oromo and Somali. Lowland East Cushitic...
were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, Saho, and Sidama. The Cushitic languages with the greatest number of total speakers are Oromo (37 million)...
mandated with preserving the Somali language. As of October 2022, Somali and Oromo are the only Cushitic languages available on Google Translate. Somali...
(Semitic) and Oromo (Cushitic). Of the world's surviving language families, Afroasiatic has the longest written history, as both the Akkadian language of Mesopotamia...
southern part of the country. Lake Zway Zay is an unwritten language. Most speakers are multilingual in other Gurage languages, in the Oromolanguage...
The Machaa (Oromo: Maccaa in short Macha, Amharic: ሜጫ) are a subgroup of the Oromo people in western and Central Oromia . They live south of the Blue Nile...
dialect of Orma or otherwise SouthernOromo. However, there is evidence that they may have shifted from a Southern Cushitic language, a group that includes...
Arsi Oromo is an ethnic Oromo branch, inhabiting the Arsi, West Arsi and Bale Zones of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, as well as in the Adami Tullu and...
The Guji Oromo are an Oromo clan living Guji Zone in southern Oromia of Ethiopia. They are distinguished by their agro-pastoral lifestyle. According to...
most spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia (after Oromo). Amharic is also the second largest Semitic language in the world (after Arabic). Amharic is written...
Kalenjin languages 4.6 million (Kipsigis 1.9 million, Nandi 940,000) Maasai 1.2 (1.9 million including Tanzania) Turkana 1.0 million Cushitic Oromo (over...
widely spoken language in Eritrea (see Demographics of Eritrea), and the fourth most spoken language in Ethiopia after Amharic, Oromo, and Somali. It...
single language of Beja (c. 3 million speakers), the Agaw languages, Eastern Cushitic, and Southern Cushitic. Only one Cushitic language, Oromo, has more...
proposed more specifically that they be linked to a Southern Lowland branch, together with Oromo, Somali, and Yaaku–Dullay. It is possible that the great...
altogether speak over 80 different languages. Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Somali, and Afar are the official working languages of Ethiopia. But courts, and legislations...
Yejju Oromo dynasty of the Wara Sheh, such as Ras Gugsa of Yejju. Prior to the Zemene Mesafint, Emperor Iyoas I had introduced the Oromolanguage (Afaan...
in: Sakhalin Oblast , Russia Oromo – Afaan Oromoo Official language in: Oromia in Ethiopia Recognised Minority Language in: Kenya Ossetian – иронау, ирон...
state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language: one designated as having a unique legal...
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