Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Somalia
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Somali Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
akkam
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Galatoomi
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Maaloo
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
naa dhiisi
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Nagayattii!
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Borana
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Orma
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Wata
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
24.00 million
  
33
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
  
Not Available
  
French Name
galla
  
chinois
  
German Name
Galla-Sprache
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Oromos
  
Han
  
Origin
16
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
om
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
orm
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
orm
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
orm
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1736
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Oromo and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Oromo and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Oromo and Chinese language. Oromo word for "Hello" is akkam or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Oromo Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Oromo vs Chinese Difficulty
The Oromo vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Oromo Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Oromo and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Oromo and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Oromo is Not Available while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.