About Oromo Language | Oromo | Alphabets in Oromo

Countries

Ethiopia, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Ethiopia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa

Minority Language

Somalia

Regulated By

Interesting Facts

Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.

Similar To

Somali Language

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 16 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 14 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

akkam

Thank You

Galatoomi

How Are You?

Attam jirta/jirtu?

Good Night

Nagayattii buli

Good Evening

Akkam waarite

Good Afternoon

Attam oolte / ooltan

Good Morning

Attam bulte/bultan

Please

Maaloo

Sorry

naa dhiisi

Bye

Nagayattii!

I Love You

Sin jaaladha

Excuse Me

Maaloo na dabarsi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Borana

Where They Speak

Ethiopia, Kenya

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00

Rank: 49 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Orma

Where They Speak

Kenya

How Many People Speak

66,000.00

Rank: 83 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Wata

Where They Speak

Kenya

How Many People Speak

13,000.00

Rank: 74 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 16 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million

Rank: 40 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.36 %

Rank: 38 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

24.00 million

Rank: 33 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

35.00 million

Rank: 24 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Afaan Oromo

Alternative Names

Afaan Oromoo

French Name

galla

German Name

Galla-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ɔrɔmɔ]

Ethnicity

Oromos

History

Origin

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Cushitic

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Afaan Oromo

Language Position

Rank: 71 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Oromo Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

orm

ISO 639 2/B

orm

ISO 639 3

orm

ISO 639 6

orm

Glottocode

nucl1736

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Oromo

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Oromo Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Oromo Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Oromo. Oromo phonology gives Oromo vowels and Oromo consonants. There are 10 vowels and 24 consonants in Oromo language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Oromo is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Oromo language is given in detail in this section.

All Oromo countries

Want to explore all Oromo countries? About Oromo language serves you with all Oromo Speaking Countries. Countries that use Oromo as official language are called as Oromo countries.

Countries that use Oromo as their National Language are: Ethiopia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Oromo as second language are: Oromo is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Oromo greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Oromo Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Oromo language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Oromo language.Learn Oromo greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: akkam
Thank you: Galatoomi
Good Morning: Attam bulte/bultan
Good Evening: Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon: Attam oolte / ooltan

All Oromo Language Codes

Get to know all Oromo language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Oromo Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.