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Countries

Countries

Ethiopia, Kenya
India

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Somalia
Bangladesh, Bhutan

Regulated By

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Asam Sahitya Sabha

Interesting Facts

  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  • Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
  • Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.

Similar To

Somali Language
Bengali and Oriya

Derived From

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Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3452
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1011
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2441
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Bengali

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

akkam
nomoskaar

Thank You

Galatoomi
ḍhonyobaaḍ

How Are You?

Attam jirta/jirtu?
aapuni kene aase?

Good Night

Nagayattii buli
subhoraattri

Good Evening

Akkam waarite
subha gadhuli

Good Afternoon

Attam oolte / ooltan
subha abeli

Good Morning

Attam bulte/bultan
suprobhaat

Please

Maaloo
anugroha kori

Sorry

naa dhiisi
moi ḍukkhita

Bye

Nagayattii!
biḍai

I Love You

Sin jaaladha
moi tomaak bhaalpaao

Excuse Me

Maaloo na dabarsi
kyoma koribo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Borana
Kamrupi

Where They Speak

Ethiopia, Kenya
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Orma
Goalpariya

Where They Speak

Kenya
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

66,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Wata
Bhakatiya

Where They Speak

Kenya
Assam

How Many People Speak

13,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

173
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million15.30 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.36 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

24.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

35.00 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afaan Oromo
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)

Alternative Names

Afaan Oromoo
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya

French Name

galla
assamais

German Name

Galla-Sprache
Assamesisch

Pronunciation

[ɔrɔmɔ]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]

Ethnicity

Oromos
Assamese people

History

Origin

16
7th century A.D

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Cushitic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Kamarupa

Standard Forms

Afaan Oromo
Assamese

Language Position

9165
1 120
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Signed Forms

Oromo Sign Language
Signed Assamese

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

om
as

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

orm
asm

ISO 639 2/B

orm
asm

ISO 639 3

orm
asm

ISO 639 6

orm
asm

Glottocode

nucl1736
assa1263

Linguasphere

No data available
59-AAF-w

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Oromo and Assamese Alphabets

Oromo and Assamese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Oromo and Assamese. In Oromo Alphabets there are 34 letters while in Assamese Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Oromo and Assamese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Oromo and Assamese languages. The Oromo phonology consist Oromo vowels and Oromo consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Oromo greetings vs Assamese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Oromo and Assamese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Oromo and Assamese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Oromo and Assamese dialects. Various dialects of Oromo and Assamese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Oromo are spoken in different Oromo Speaking Countries whereas Assamese Dialects are spoken in different Assamese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Oromo vs Assamese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Oromo dialects include: Borana, Orma. Assamese dialects include: Kamrupi , Goalpariya. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Oromo and Assamese Speaking population

Oromo and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Oromo and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Oromo and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Oromo and Assamese on Oromo vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Oromo and Assamese Language Codes

Oromo and Assamese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Oromo and Assamese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.