Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Somalia
Palau
Regulated By
-
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Somali Language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3499
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2414
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
akkam
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Galatoomi
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Maaloo
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
naa dhiisi
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Nagayattii!
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Borana
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Orma
Hakata
Where They Speak
Kenya
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
66,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wata
Kansai
Where They Speak
Kenya
kansai
How Many People Speak
13,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1731
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.36 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
日本語
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Nihongo
French Name
galla
japonais
German Name
Galla-Sprache
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ɔrɔmɔ]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Oromos
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
16
1185
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Japanese
Language Position
918
1
120
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Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
om
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
orm
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
orm
jpn
ISO 639 3
orm
jpn
ISO 639 6
orm
jpn
Glottocode
nucl1736
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic