Oromo

E41327

Afroasiatic language Cushitic language language

Oromo is a Cushitic language widely spoken by the Oromo people, primarily in Ethiopia and parts of neighboring East African countries.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Oromo canonical	32
Oromo language	19
Afaan Oromo	4
Afaan Oromoo	1
Oromo Muslims	1
Oromo language area	1
Oromo languages	1
Oromo people	1
Standard Oromo	1
Western Oromo	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Afroasiatic language ⓘ Cushitic language ⓘ language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Afar language ⓘ Afar language ⓘ surface form: Sidamo language Somali language ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Oromo ⓘ surface form: Afaan Oromo Oromo ⓘ surface form: Afaan Oromoo Galla (pejorative, obsolete) ⓘ
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers	among the most widely spoken languages in Africa ⓘ over 30 million ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder	SOV ⓘ
hasGlottocode	orom1260 ⓘ
hasISO639-1Code	om ⓘ
hasISO639-2Code	orm ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code	orm ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature	gender and number agreement ⓘ postpositions ⓘ rich case system ⓘ vowel harmony ⓘ
hasMacrolanguageStatus	true ⓘ
hasMajorDialect	Borana-Arsi-Guji ⓘ Borana-Arsi-Guji ⓘ surface form: Eastern Oromo Orma ⓘ Borana-Arsi-Guji ⓘ surface form: Southern Oromo Oromo self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Western Oromo
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	five-vowel system with length contrast ⓘ geminate consonants ⓘ
hasStandardForm	Qubee orthography ⓘ
hasStandardizationPeriod	late 20th century ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Geʽez script (historically) ⓘ Latin script ⓘ
regulatedBy	Oromo language academies and cultural institutions ⓘ
spokenBy	Oromo people ⓘ
spokenIn	Eritrea ⓘ Ethiopia ⓘ Kenya ⓘ Somalia ⓘ
subfamilyOf	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ surface form: Afroasiatic language family Cushitic ⓘ surface form: Cushitic branch
usedAs	regional official language in Ethiopia ⓘ working language in Ethiopia ⓘ
usedIn	broadcast media in Ethiopia ⓘ education in some Ethiopian regions ⓘ literature and poetry of Oromo people ⓘ

Referenced by (62)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southern Gumuz → isDistinctFrom → Oromo ⓘ

Southern Gumuz → contactWith → Oromo ⓘ

Ras Makonnen Wolde Mikael → languageSpoken → Oromo ⓘ

Sifan Hassan → languageSpoken → Oromo ⓘ

Argobba → languageShiftTowards → Oromo ⓘ