Оромо

Publisher: VDM Verlag Publication date: August 7, 2009(official publishing) Number of pages: 88 ISBN: 978-3639169027 This book presents a good insight into tone in Oromo language which has rarely been dealt with. This significant work provides an ample evidence to show the tonal nature of the language. In such language, where tonal variations cause lexical and grammatical...

Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2001. — 117 p. Oromo is among the most widespread African languages. It is spoken by approximately 25 million speakers in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The grammatical sketch offers an overview of Oromo’s grammatical structure. In the first chapter phonology is dealt with. The author lays the main emphasis on the elaborated nominal and verbal morphology,...

EBook It, 2013. — 208 p. The earliest registered civilization is probably the civilization of Cushitic speaking peoples spearheaded by ancient Egypt. The Oromo are of the Cushitic speaking stock. Missing links of that civilization are hoped to be found in the language and culture of the Oromo nation of East Africa. It is not too late for researchers of ancient civilizations to...

Publisher: Addis Ababa Date: 2002 Pages: 122 This study is about the lexical standardization of Oromo. It examines the components of standardization in the light of Haugen’s (1966, 1969) proposal. This proposal classifies the process of standardization into four components: selection codification elaboration and implementation. The study begins with the identification of base...

London: The Church missionary society, 1840. — XIV, 16 p. A few remarks concerning the nation of the Gallas and an Evangelical mission among them (C.W. Isenberg). An imperfect outline of the elements of the Galla language.

Awassa: Alem Training centre, 1975. — 58 p. The purpose of this text is to introduce the Oromo language, spoken in parts of Ethiopia and Kenya, to Peace Corps volunteers. The Oromo language (also referred to as Galla) used in the text is based on the standard language spoken in the western and southwestern provinces of Wollega, Illubabor, and Kaffa. However, with dialectal...

Polska akademia nauk, 1990. — xiv, 178 s. — (Prace komisji orientalistycznej NR 21). — ISBN 83-04-03316-X. A textbook of Oromo (Afaan Oromoo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia with some 25 million speakers. Oromo (till 1974 known mostly by the now rejected name 'Galla') is one of the major African languages. With its at least 20 million native speakers living in Ethiopia,...

Hamburg: Buske, 1985. - 17 p.(demo-version) n this chapter I will describe the inflectional paradigms of simple verbs. In the next I will consider compound tenses and the use of tenses, and in other chapters various syntactic aspects related to Oromo verb morphology.

Helmut Buske, 1985. — 279 p. — (Kuschitische Sprachstudien/Cushitic language studies 4). In this book we will describe the inflectional paradigms of simple verbs. In the next we will consider compound tenses and the use of tenses, and in other chapters various syntactic aspects related to Oromo verb morphology. This is the first handbook of eastern or harar oromo for which we...

Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 2001. — 177 p. — (Kuschitische Sprachstudien/Cushitic language studies 16). Orma Oromo is a Southern Dialect of Oromo (Eastern Cushitic) spoken in the Tana River District of the Kenyan Coast Province, mainly along the Tana River itself, between Garissa and Garsen. The number of speakers is estimated to be about 69,000 people (www.ethnologue.org for 2006)....

1996. - 85 p. ISSN: 1070-2202 The Journal of Oromo Srudies (10S) is an international scholarly publication of the Oromo Studies Association which serves as a vehicle of expression for its members and others It is a peer reviewed journal that is published biannually The JOS seeks to promote and facilitate rigorous analysis, synthesis, and policy recommendations of scholars on...

Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2000. — IV, 218 p. — ISSN: 1070-2202. The Journal of Oromo Studies (JOS) is a multi-disciplinary international journal of the Oromo Studies Association, and it publishes original research and book reviews on Oromo studies and other related issues twice a year. The Politicization of My Oromo-English Dictionary: The Writer's Reflections....

Munich, 1845. — VIII, 91 p. The present little work must be laid before the learned public in a condition which, in regard to completeness , leaves very much to be desired, since the early death of my brother prevented him from finishing it according to his original plan. When I resolved to continue the studies begun by him, (a full account of which is given in the preface to...

2009. - 52 p. Oromo, also known as Afaan Oromo, Oromiffa(a) (and sometimes in other languages by variant spellings of these names; Oromic, Afan Oromo, etc.), is an Afro-Asiatic language. It is the most widely spoken tongue in the family's Cushitic branch. Forms of Oromo are spoken as a first language by more than 35 million Oromo and neighbouring peoples in Ethiopia and parts...