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...
with a pejorative meaning and therefore rejected by the Oromo people), is an Afroasiatic language that belongs to the Cushitic branch. It is native to the...
who speak the Oromolanguage (also called Afaan Oromoo or Oromiffa), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are...
The Oromo Liberation Army (OLA; Oromo: Waraana Bilisummaa Oromoo, WBO) is an armed opposition group active in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. The OLA consist...
The Oromo conflict is a protracted conflict between the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ethiopian government. The Oromo Liberation Front formed to...
The Oromo Liberation Front (Oromo: Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo, abbreviated: ABO; English abbreviation: OLF) is an Oromo nationalist political party formed...
Oromia (Amharic: ኦሮሚያ) (Oromo: Oromiyaa) is a regional state in Ethiopia and the homeland of the Oromo people. The capital of Oromia is Addis Ababa. It...
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...
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)...
Konso language Dirasha languageOromolanguage (also in Kenya) Transversal Lowland East Cushitic Bussa language Gawwada language Tsamai language Omotic*...
(Semitic) and Oromo (Cushitic). Of the world's surviving language families, Afroasiatic has the longest written history, as both the Akkadian language of Mesopotamia...
mandated with preserving the Somali language. As of October 2022, Somali and Oromo are the only Cushitic languages available on Google Translate. Somali...
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...
Gonga enclave within the southernOromo area. Kafa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference...
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 the Sahel. Oromo (Cushitic), spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya by around 34 million people. Amharic (Semitic), official working language of Ethiopia, with...
Gadaa (Oromo: Gadaa; literally: era) is the indigenous democratic system of governance used by the Oromos in Ethiopia and northern Kenya. It is also practiced...
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...
Kalenjin languages 6.7 million (Kipsigis 1.9 million, Nandi 940,000) Maasai 1.2 (1.9 million including Tanzania) Turkana 1.0 million Cushitic Oromo (over...
Waata (Oromo-speaking) Konso people Dirasha people, who speak Dirasha language Bussa people, who are shifting away from Bussa language to Oromo, Dirasha...
Afro-Asiatic Somali language on account of their time in servitude. In addition to Bantu plantation slaves, Somalis sometimes enslaved peoples of Oromo pastoral...
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...
most spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia (after Oromo). Amharic is also the second largest Semitic language in the world (after Arabic). Amharic is written...
including most of the Rift valley pastoralists, joined the Oromo, adopting both their language and their gada social organization, which was the basis of...
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...
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