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Oromo
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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Ethiopia, Kenya

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Ethiopia

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa

1.6 Minority Language

Somalia

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.

1.9 Similar To

Somali Language

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

34
Rank: 16 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

24
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

akkam

3.2 Thank You

Galatoomi

3.3 How Are You?

Attam jirta/jirtu?

3.4 Good Night

Nagayattii buli

3.5 Good Evening

Akkam waarite

3.6 Good Afternoon

Attam oolte / ooltan

3.7 Good Morning

Attam bulte/bultan

3.8 Please

Maaloo

3.9 Sorry

naa dhiisi

3.10 Bye

Nagayattii!

3.11 I Love You

Sin jaaladha

3.12 Excuse Me

Maaloo na dabarsi

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Borana

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Ethiopia, Kenya

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00
Rank: 19 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Orma

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Kenya

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

66,000.00
Rank: 37 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Wata

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Kenya

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

13,000.00
Rank: 33 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

17
Rank: 16 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

25.00 million
Rank: 40 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.36 %
Rank: 36 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

24.00 million
Rank: 33 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Afaan Oromo

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Afaan Oromoo

5.3.4 French Name

galla

5.3.5 German Name

Galla-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Oromos

6 History

6.1 Origin

16

6.2 Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Cushitic

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Afaan Oromo

6.3.3 Language Position

91
Rank: 61 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Macrolanguage

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

om

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

orm

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

orm

7.3 ISO 639 3

orm

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

nucl1736

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Oromo

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Oromo Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Oromo Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Oromo. Oromo phonology gives Oromo vowels and Oromo consonants. There are 10 vowels and 24 consonants in Oromo language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Oromo is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Oromo language is given in detail in this section.

All Oromo countries

Want to explore all Oromo countries? About Oromo language serves you with all Oromo Speaking Countries. Countries that use Oromo as official language are called as Oromo countries.

  • Countries that use Oromo as their National Language are: Ethiopia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Oromo as second language are: Oromo is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Oromo greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Oromo Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Oromo language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Oromo language.Learn Oromo greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: akkam
  • Thank you: Galatoomi
  • Good Morning: Attam bulte/bultan
  • Good Evening: Akkam waarite
  • Good Afternoon: Attam oolte / ooltan

All Oromo Language Codes

Get to know all Oromo language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Oromo Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.