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The Oromoid languages are a branch of Lowland East Cushitic languages that includes the most populous Cushitic language, Oromo, and the closely related Konsoid dialect cluster. Oromo, Eastern Oromo, Borana, Orma, Waata. Konsoid (Konso–Gidole) Konso, Dirasha (Gidole), Bussa (Mossiya), Mashile, Turo, Gato. References. Categories:
Oromo is the most widely spoken Cushitic language and among the five languages of Africa with the largest mother-tongue populations. [17] Oromo serves as one of the official working languages of Ethiopia [4] and is also the working language of several of the states within the Ethiopian federal system including Oromia , [14] Harari ...
Southern Oromo, or Borana (after one of its dialects), is a variety of Oromo spoken in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya by the Borana people. Günther Schlee also notes that it is the native language of a number of related peoples, such as the Sakuye. [2]
The most spoken Lowland East Cushitic language is Oromo, with about 35 million speakers in Ethiopia and Kenya. The Konsoid dialect cluster is closely related to Oromo. Other prominent languages include Somali (spoken by ethnic Somalis in Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya) with about 30 million speakers, and Afar (in ...
Eastern Oromo is a form of Oromo language spoken in the East Hararghe Zone, West Hararghe Zone and northern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. [1] According to Ethnologue, there are 11 million speakers of this Oromo form. [1]
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania.
It is good to note that except Oromo, the other languages in the Oromoid cluster have fewer speakers and thus Oromo can be considered the pillar of the group. Figure 2. Classification of languages in the Oromoid cluster (Blazak & Zahorik, 2008) One can also see that in the Oromoid cluster of the Cushitic group, Oromo is more related more to Konso than to Mussiye.
