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...
Oromo (/ˈɒrəmoʊ/ or /ɔːˈroʊmoʊ/; Oromo: Afaan Oromoo), is an Afroasiatic language that belongs to the Cushitic branch. It is native to the Ethiopian state...
The Oromo (pron. /ˈɒrəmoʊ/ Oromo: Oromoo) are a Cushitic ethnic group mostly native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia who speak the Oromolanguage (also...
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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...
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roughly two dozen diverse languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its largest representatives are Somali and Oromo. Lowland East Cushitic...
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were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, Saho, and Sidama. The Cushitic languages with the greatest number of total speakers are Oromo (37 million)...
(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...
by smaller Rahanweyn communities. Collectively, these languages present similarities with Oromo that are not found in mainstream Somali. Chief among these...
The Borana (Oromo: Borana) is one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people. They live in the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia and the...
dialect of Orma or otherwise SouthernOromo. However, there is evidence that they may have shifted from a Southern Cushitic language, a group that includes...
set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. For example, a language is often defined as a set of varieties that are...
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...
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...
another 25,100,000 second language speakers, Amharic is the second most commonly-spoken mother-tongue of Ethiopia (after Oromo), but the most widely spoken...
Afro-Asiatic Somali language on account of their time in servitude. In addition to Bantu plantation slaves, Somalis sometimes enslaved peoples of Oromo pastoral...
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Arsi Oromo is an ethnic Oromo branch, inhabiting the Oromia Region, mainly in the Arsi, West Arsi and Bale Zones of Ethiopia, as well as in the Adami Tullu...
speaking the language of the former and adopting Oromo names as well as Amharic names. An example of this was the marriage between the renowned Oromo general...
Oromo, and is the second most populous Semitic language, after just Arabic. It is the lingua franca and constitutionally recognized national language...
and the Sahel. Oromo (Cushitic), spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya by around 34 million people. Amharic (Semitic), official working language of Ethiopia, with...
The Gabra ((Oromo: Gabraa)) are related to the wider Oromo people in the Horn of Africa, they mainly inhabit the Moyale and Marsabit regions of northern...
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...
Waata (Oromo-speaking) Konso people Dirasha people, who speak Dirasha language Bussa people, who are shifting away from Bussa language to Oromo, Dirasha...
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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...
different languages. Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Somali, and Afar are the official working languages of Ethiopia. Finland has two national languages: the Finnish...
widely spoken language in Eritrea (see Demographics of Eritrea), and the fourth most spoken language in Ethiopia after Amharic, Oromo, and Somali. It...
state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language: one designated as having a unique legal...
Gadaa (Oromo: Gadaa: spelling: Gadaa; literally: era) is the indigenous democratic system of governance used by the Oromos in Ethiopia and northern Kenya...
languages have always been spoken in Canada. Prior to Confederation, the territories that would become Canada were home to over 70 distinct languages...
in: Sakhalin Oblast , Russia Oromo – Afaan Oromoo Official language in: Oromia in Ethiopia Recognised Minority Language in: Kenya Ossetian – иронау, ирон...
response to Oromo threats. In less than a year after its relocation Adal would collapse. Harari imams continued to have a presence in the southern Afar Region...
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...
and Omotic languages and should be considered endangered according to Gurmu (2005). Speakers of the North Bussa variety are shifting to Oromo, Dirasha or...
ISO 639-3 language code for Oromo. Its ISO 639-1 code is om. There are four individual language codes assigned: gax – Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo hae – Eastern...
different languages and ethnic groups. Ethiopians speak Afro-Asiatic languages (Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic) and Nilo-Saharan languages. The Oromo, Amhara...
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perceived the Oromo identity and languages as an obstacle to the expansion of Ethiopian national identity. Under the Haile Selassie Regime Oromo was banned...
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