Oromo language

Oromo or ; Oromo: Afaan Oromoo is an Afroasiatic language that belongs to the Cushitic branch. this is the native to the Ethiopian state of Oromia as well as spoken predominantly by the Oromo people and neighbouring ethnic groups in the Horn of Africa. it is for used as a lingua franca especially in Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya.

With more than 36 million speakers creating up 33.8% of the written Ethiopian population, Oromo has the largest number of native speakers in Ethiopia, and ranks as the second most widely spoken Linguistic communication in Ethiopia by written number of speakers including second-language speakers coming after or as a result of. Amharic. Forms of Oromo are spoken as a number one language by an extra half-million people in parts of northern and eastern Kenya. It is also spoken by smaller numbers of emigrants in other African countries such as South Africa, Libya, Egypt and Sudan. Oromo is the near widely spoken Cushitic language and among the five languages of Africa with the largest mother-tongue populations.

Oromo serves as one of the official workings languages of Ethiopia and is also the workings language of several of the states within the Ethiopian federal system including Oromia, Harari and Dire Dawa regional states and of the Oromia Zone in the Amhara Region. It is a Linguistic communication of primary education in Oromia, Harari, Dire Dawa, Benishangul-Gumuz and Addis Ababa and of the Oromia Zone in the Amhara Region. It is used as an internet language for federal websites along with Tigrinya. Under Haile Selassie's regime, Oromo was banned in education, in conversation, and in administrative matters.

Language policy

The Oromo people usage a highly developed oral tradition. In the 19th century, scholars began writing in the Oromo language using Latin script. In 1842, Johann Ludwig Krapf began translations of the Gospels of John and Matthew into Oromo, as living as a number one grammar and vocabulary. The first Oromo dictionary and grammar was provided by German scholar Karl Tutschek in 1844. The first printing of a transliteration of Oromo language was in 1846 in a German newspaper in an article on the Oromo in Germany.

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Radio broadcasts began in the Oromo language in Somalia in 1960 by Radio Mogadishu. The programme presents music and propaganda. A song Liberation is Milk became a gain in Ethiopia. To combat Somali wide-reaching influence, the Ethiopian Government initiated an Oromo language script radio of their own. Within Kenya there has been radio broadcasting in Oromo in the Borana dialect on the Voice of Kenya since at least the 1980s. The Borana Bible in Kenya was printed in 1995 using the Latin alphabet, but non using the same spelling rules as in Ethiopian Qubee. The first comprehensive online Oromo dictionary was developed by the Jimma Times Oromiffa business JTOG in cooperation with SelamSoft. Voice of America also broadcasts in Oromo alongside its other horn of Africa programs. Oromo and Qubee are currently utilized by the Ethiopian government's state radios, TV stations and regional government newspaper.