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About Oromo Language

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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Ethiopia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Somalia
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
1.9 Similar To
Somali Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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34
Rank: 16 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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24
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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Rank: 4 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
akkam
3.2 Thank You
Galatoomi
3.3 How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
3.4 Good Night
Nagayattii buli
3.5 Good Evening
Akkam waarite
3.6 Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
3.7 Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
3.8 Please
Maaloo
3.9 Sorry
naa dhiisi
3.10 Bye
Nagayattii!
3.11 I Love You
Sin jaaladha
3.12 Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Borana
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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4,000,000.00
Rank: 19 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Orma
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Kenya
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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66,000.00
Rank: 37 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Wata
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kenya
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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13,000.00
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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17
Rank: 16 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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25.00 million
Rank: 40 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.36 %
Rank: 36 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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24.00 million
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
Afaan Oromo
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
5.3.4 French Name
galla
5.3.5 German Name
Galla-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Oromos
6 History
6.1 Origin
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6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Cushitic
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
om
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
orm
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
orm
7.3 ISO 639 3
orm
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
nucl1736
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available

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.

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