• 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...
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    Blench (2006) divides Oromo into four languages: Western Oromo (Maca) Shewa (Tuulama, Arsi) Eastern Oromo (Harar) Southern Oromo (Ajuran, Borana, Gabra...
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    Kenya. They speak the Oromo language (also called Afaan Oromoo), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are one...
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  • Oromo is one of the many Oromo languages spoken amongst Ethiopians and Kenyans. Boraana Oromo (Southern Oromo) derives from the Afrosiatic language family...
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    The Oromo Liberation Front (Oromo: Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo, abbreviated: ABO; English abbreviation: OLF) is an Oromo nationalist political party formed...
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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...
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    speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, and Sidama. The Cushitic languages with the greatest number of total speakers are Oromo (37 million)...
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    Oromia (redirect from Oromo Region)
    Oromia (Oromo: Oromiyaa) is a regional state in Ethiopia and the homeland of the Oromo people. Under Article 49 of Ethiopian Constitution, the capital...
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    Boorana (redirect from Borena Oromo)
    of the Oromo people. A Cushitic ethnic group, they primarily inhabit the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia and the former Eastern Province...
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  • roughly two dozen diverse languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its largest representatives are Oromo and Somali. Lowland East Cushitic...
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    mandated with preserving the Somali language. As of October 2022, Somali and Oromo are the only Cushitic languages available on Google Translate. Somali...
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  • other Cushitic languages are noted by Lamberti: bafee 'lungs' ~ Oromo bafeed 'to breathe' (contrast Somali sambab 'lung') booGo 'jaw' ~ Oromo bookho (contrast...
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    invasion of the Eastern Horn of Africa namely Hararghe and western Somaliland was part of a conflict between the Sultan of Aussa, Oromo, Somali tribesmen...
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  • Barento (redirect from Barentu, (Oromo))
    Barento (Oromo: Bareentoo) is one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people, a Cushitic ethnic group. They live in the West Hararghe Zone, East Hararghe...
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  • transcription delimiters. This article describes the phonology of the Oromo language. The Oromo language has 24 to 28 consonant phonemes depending on the dialect....
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  • Ali Birra (category Oromo-language singers)
    as a child, where he learned to write the language. Birra, however, was raised speaking the Oromo language. He also enrolled in a local public school...
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  • Amharic (redirect from Amharic (language))
    spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia (after Oromo). Amharic is also the second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world (after Arabic). Amharic is...
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    (Semitic) and Oromo (Cushitic). Of the world's surviving language families, Afroasiatic has the longest written history, as both the Akkadian language of Mesopotamia...
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    Yejju (redirect from Yejju Oromo)
    "little more than Galla (Oromo) puppets". The court of Gondar would primarily be in the hands of the Oromo and the official language of the court would change...
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    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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    Ethiopians (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
    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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  • Hae (category Articles containing German-language text)
    musical collective from St. Louis, Missouri Eastern Oromo language (ISO 639 code: hae), an Ethiopian language Haemonetics (NYSE stock ticker HAE), a blood...
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    East Africa (redirect from Eastern African)
    Africa and Nile Valley, Afroasiatic languages predominate, including languages of the family's Cushitic (such as Beja, Oromo and Somali), Semitic (such as Amharic...
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    Ethiopia, the Eastern Mediterranean region, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa. According to a 2009 study, the Semitic languages originated in the...
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  • Argobba people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    sixteenth century, Argobba were involved in several conflicts with the Oromo during the Oromo migrations, and due to the withdrawal of Adal from Ethiopia, came...
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  • or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. It may also be called a cryptolect, argot, pseudo-language, anti-language...
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  • Central Oromo hae – Eastern Oromo orc – Orma pus is the ISO 639-3 language code for Pashto. Its ISO 639-1 code is ps. There are three individual language codes...
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    Harari people (category Articles containing Harari-language text)
    the language spoken by the Imams and Sultans of Adal would closely resemble contemporary Harari language. Modern Harari is influenced more by Oromo than...
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  • lived in the interior of Ogaden and by the seashores prior to Somali and Oromo movements into these regions. The Harla Kingdom existed as early as the...
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    single language of Beja (c. 3 million speakers), the Agaw languages, Eastern Cushitic, and Southern Cushitic. Only one Cushitic language, Oromo, has more...
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