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Oromo

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Countries

Countries

Ethiopia, Kenya
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
India, Nepal

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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-

Interesting Facts

  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  • Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
  • Maithili has rich literature.

Similar To

Somali Language
Bhojpuri Language

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3447
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

108
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2422
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Devanagari

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

akkam
pranam

Thank You

Galatoomi
dhanyabad

How Are You?

Attam jirta/jirtu?
Aahan kehan chhi ?

Good Night

Nagayattii buli
Śubharātri

Good Evening

Akkam waarite
shubh sandhya

Good Afternoon

Attam oolte / ooltan
dopahar ke bad namaskar

Good Morning

Attam bulte/bultan
Suprabhaat

Please

Maaloo
kripaya

Sorry

naa dhiisi
maf karai

Bye

Nagayattii!
Alavidā

I Love You

Sin jaaladha
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi

Excuse Me

Maaloo na dabarsi
kripaya

Dialects

Dialect 1

Borana
Tharuwat

Where They Speak

Ethiopia, Kenya
Nepal

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Orma
Madhubani

Where They Speak

Kenya
North India

How Many People Speak

66,000.0035,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Wata
Khortha

Where They Speak

Kenya
Deoghar, France

How Many People Speak

13,000.0035,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1715
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million32.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.36 %0.41 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

24.00 million27.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

35.00 million2.80 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Afaan Oromo
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)

Alternative Names

Afaan Oromoo
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia

French Name

galla
maithili

German Name

Galla-Sprache
Maithili

Pronunciation

[ɔrɔmɔ]
[ˈmaitʰili]

Ethnicity

Oromos
Maithil

History

Origin

16
14th century

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Cushitic
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Afaan Oromo
Standard Maithili

Language Position

9140
1 120
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Signed Forms

Oromo Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

om
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

orm
mai

ISO 639 2/B

orm
mai

ISO 639 3

orm
mai

ISO 639 6

orm
mai

Glottocode

nucl1736
mait1250

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

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Oromo and Maithili Alphabets

Oromo and Maithili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Oromo and Maithili. In Oromo Alphabets there are 34 letters while in Maithili Alphabets there are 47 letters. To learn Oromo and Maithili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Oromo and Maithili 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 Maithili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Oromo and Maithili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Oromo and Maithili Speaking population

Oromo and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Oromo and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Oromo and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. 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 Maithili on Oromo vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Oromo and Maithili Language Codes

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