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Eastern Oromo

Eastern Oromo is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia.

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Eastern Oromo · 8.7°N 41.4°E

Eastern Oromo is a dialect of the Oromo language widely spoken in the East Hararghe Zone, West Hararghe Zone and northern Bale Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.

According to Ethnologue, there are 11 million speakers of this Oromo form. However, the 1994 Ethiopian national census did not break down language speakers according to dialect, although it reported 2,570,293 speakers of Oromo in those two zones.

From Wikipedia · Eastern Oromo language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Eastern Oromo

MeaningWordRomanization
personnama*
namemaqa*
eyeija*
eargura*
nosefu5an*
toothilkan*
tonguearaba*
handharka*
blooddiga*
bonelafe*
skingoga*
kneejilba*
breastqoma*
livertiru*
waterbisan*
fireibida*
sunadu*
starurji*
stonedaga*
mountaintulu*
treemuqa*
leafbala*
nighthalkan*
dogsare*
fishqurtumi*
louseinjiran*
onetoko*
twolama*
Iana*
youati*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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