Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Central Hindi Directorate
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Somali Language
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3444
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1011
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2433
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
akkam
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Galatoomi
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Maaloo
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
naa dhiisi
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Nagayattii!
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Borana
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Orma
Marwari
Where They Speak
Kenya
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
66,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wata
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Kenya
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
13,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1721
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.36 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
galla
hindi
German Name
Galla-Sprache
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ɔrɔmɔ]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Oromos
Hindustani people
Origin
16
7th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Standard Hindi
Language Position
915
1
120
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Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
om
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
orm
hin
ISO 639 2/B
orm
hin
ISO 639 3
orm
hin
ISO 639 6
orm
hins
Glottocode
nucl1736
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic