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Oromo
Oromo

Cantonese
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Countries

Countries

Ethiopia, Kenya
Hong Kong, Macau

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
China, Guangdong

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Somalia
Hawaii

Regulated By

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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division

Interesting Facts

  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.

Similar To

Somali Language
Chinese Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3428
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

108
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2420
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

510
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

akkam
您好

Thank You

Galatoomi
谢谢

How Are You?

Attam jirta/jirtu?
你好吗?

Good Night

Nagayattii buli
晚安

Good Evening

Akkam waarite
晚上好

Good Afternoon

Attam oolte / ooltan
下午好

Good Morning

Attam bulte/bultan
早上好

Please

Maaloo

Sorry

naa dhiisi
遗憾

Bye

Nagayattii!
再见

I Love You

Sin jaaladha
我爱你

Excuse Me

Maaloo na dabarsi
原谅我

Dialects

Dialect 1

Borana
Guangzhou

Where They Speak

Ethiopia, Kenya
outside mainland China

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Orma
Xiguan

Where They Speak

Kenya
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

66,000.0071,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Wata
Hong Kong

Where They Speak

Kenya
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

13,000.0070,000,000.00
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 million60.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.36 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

24.00 million52.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

35.00 million71.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afaan Oromo
Kwang Tung Wa

Alternative Names

Afaan Oromoo
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese

French Name

galla
cantonais

German Name

Galla-Sprache
Kantonesisch

Pronunciation

[ɔrɔmɔ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]

Ethnicity

Oromos
Han Chinese

History

Origin

16
17th century

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Cushitic
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Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Afaan Oromo
Standard Cantonese

Language Position

911
1 120
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Signed Forms

Oromo Sign Language
Signed Cantonese

Scope

Macrolanguage
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Code

ISO 639 1

om
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

orm
yue

ISO 639 2/B

orm
yue

ISO 639 3

orm
No data available

ISO 639 6

orm
yue

Glottocode

nucl1736
cant1236

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

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Oromo and Cantonese Alphabets

Oromo and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Oromo and Cantonese. In Oromo Alphabets there are 34 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Oromo and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Oromo and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Oromo and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Oromo and Cantonese 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 Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Oromo and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Oromo are spoken in different Oromo Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Oromo vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Oromo dialects include: Borana, Orma. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Oromo and Cantonese Speaking population

Oromo and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Oromo and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Oromo and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Cantonese on Oromo vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Oromo and Cantonese Language Codes

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