1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
1.9 Similar To
Somali Language
Kinyarwanda Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Urakomeye?
3.4 Good Night
Nagayattii buli
Ijoro ryiza
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
Mwiriwe
3.7 Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
Mwaramutse
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Sin jaaladha
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
Not available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
66,000.00990,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
13,000.00153,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million8.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
24.00 million8.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Oromos
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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