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About Oromo Language



Countries

Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
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Alphabets
34 16

Phonology

How Many Vowels
10 7

How Many Consonants
24 14

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 49

Dialect 2
Orma

Where They Speak
Kenya

How Many People Speak
66,000.00 83

Dialect 3
Wata

Where They Speak
Kenya

How Many People Speak
13,000.00 74

Total No. Of Dialects
17 16

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
25.00 million 40

Speaking Population
0.36 % 38

Native Speakers
24.00 million 33

Second Language Speakers
35.00 million 24

Native Name
Afaan Oromo

Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo

French Name
galla

German Name
Galla-Sprache

Pronunciation
[ɔrɔmɔ]

Ethnicity
Oromos

History

Origin
16

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup
Cushitic

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo

Language Position
91 71

Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language

Scope
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
om

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
-

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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.

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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.

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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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