Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Somalia
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Somali Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
akkam
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Galatoomi
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Maaloo
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
naa dhiisi
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Nagayattii!
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Borana
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
19
Dialect 2
Orma
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Wata
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Kenya
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
24.00 million
  
33
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
  
Russki
  
French Name
galla
  
russe
  
German Name
Galla-Sprache
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Oromos
  
Russians
  
Origin
16
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
om
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
orm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
orm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
orm
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1736
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Oromo and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Oromo and Russian language. Oromo word for "Hello" is akkam or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Oromo Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Oromo vs Russian Difficulty
The Oromo vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Oromo Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Oromo and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Oromo is Not Available while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.