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    is spoken predominantly by the Oromo people and neighboring ethnic groups in the Horn of Africa. It is used as a lingua franca particularly in the Oromia...
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    Ethiopia (category Articles containing Oromo-language text)
    the Yejju Oromo dynasty of the Wara Sheh, including Ras Gugsa of Yejju. Before the Zemene Mesafint, Emperor Iyoas I had introduced the Oromo language (Afaan...
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    used for interethnic communication. These include Arabic, Somali, Amharic, Oromo, Igbo, Swahili, Hausa, Manding, Fulani and Yoruba, which are spoken as a...
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    the Cushitic or Semitic branches. The former includes the Oromo language, spoken by the Oromo, and Somali, spoken by the Somalis; the latter includes Amharic...
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  • these could be classified in the Gibberish family. Also, Double Talk, Língua do Pê, Jeringonza, and B-Sprache all work by adding a consonant after the...
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    the Argobba). During the 1600s, there were large-scale migrations of the Oromo from the south into the highlands and also alongside the Somali into Adal...
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  • da UFRJ sobre a cooficialização de línguas no Brasil Município de Itarana participa de ações do Inventário da Língua Pomerana, Prefeitura Municipal de...
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  • in Ethiopia, and the second most spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia (after Oromo). Amharic is also the second most widely spoken Semitic language in the...
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  • Maasai 1.2 (1.9 million including Tanzania) Turkana 1.0 million Cushitic Oromo (over 48 million incl. Ethiopia) Borana, 3.4 million speakers in 2010 Orma...
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    for /ʐ/ in Tatar, and for /dʒ/ in Indonesian, Somali, Malay, Igbo, Shona, Oromo, Turkmen, and Zulu. It represents a voiced palatal plosive /ɟ/ in Konkani...
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    Somali is the most widely spoken Cushitic language in the region followed by Oromo and Afar. As of 2021, there are approximately 24 million speakers of Somali...
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    retraced his steps to the court of Adara Bille, a chieftain of the Wollo Oromo who then robbed him. Krapf managed to effect his escape with his servants...
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    signed an infamous and humiliating peace treaty with the Oromos. The treaty stated that the Oromos can freely enter to the Muslim markets and purchase goods...
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    attacks and mob killings of Amhara women and children by the Oromo Liberation Army and aligned Oromo nationalist groups in Oromia, specifically Wollega, for...
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  • of power to Aussa from Harar in 1577, as the latter was too exposed to Oromo invasions. Internal strife arose from conflicts between the Harla and Arab...
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  • specifically that they be linked to a Southern Lowland branch, together with Oromo, Somali, and Yaaku–Dullay. It is possible that the great lexical divergence...
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  • in southwestern Ethiopia. Sidaama vocabulary has also been influenced by Oromo vocabulary. Other consonant sounds /p/ and /v/ are only heard from loanwords...
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    with those of their Cushitic neighbors (such as the Gada system of the Oromo). The Cushitic people form a small minority of Kenya's population. They...
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  • SinMin dataset (Sinhala) Amharic: Creole (Gulf of Guinea): Hausa: Igbo: Oromo: Yoruba: Zulu: Chinese/English Political Interpreting Corpus (CEPIC) consists...
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    March 2024. "Rocco". etimo.it (in Italian). Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana. Retrieved 18 March 2024. Sunnucks 1970 Oxford English Dictionary...
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  • Ethiopia has five official languages (Amharic alone until 2020) Amharic, Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya, and Afar, but Amharic is the de facto sole official language...
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    weakened state after the war left it susceptible to the Oromo migrations, in which the Oromo people of southern Ethiopia began to expand northward and...
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    belongs to the Cushitic languages, and serves as a sort of lingua franca for over 25 million Oromos. However, most people in Bale Mountains speak some Amharic...
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  • Akkadian Amharic Ancient Egyptian Arabic Aramaic Beja Coptic Hebrew Maltese Oromo Saho Somali South Arabian Tamazight (Berber) Tuareg Indo-European Breton...
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    Manipuri Māori Marathi Nahuatl (Classical) Nepali Norwegian (Bokmål) Nogai Oromo Papiamento Persian Persian (Latin alphabet)2 Polish Portuguese (Brazilian)...
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    languages outside of the Semitic branch. In the following years the Kafa, Oromo, Sidama, Somali, and Wolaitta languages switched to Latin while there is...
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    Ethiopian–Adal War 1527–1543 Oromo migrations 1543 – 17th cent. Habesh Eyalet 1557 – 17th cent. Gondarine period 1632–1769 Zemene Mesafint 1769–1855 Ottoman...
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  • however, Giddicho is primarily the name given to the Baiso people by the Guji Oromo, a neighbor clan with close relationship to them. The Baiso term for Giddicho...
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  • nationalities. Its people altogether speak over 80 different languages. Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Somali, and Afar are the official working languages of Ethiopia...
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    establish a local aristocracy, other Cushitic groups affiliated with the Oromo (Wardai) and Ajuuraan (Ma'adanle) had already formed settlements of their...
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