... word ‘Oromo’ refers to both the People of Oromo and their language. It is one of the widely spoken indigenous African languages. It is also spoken in multiple countries in Africa including Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania among others. Moreover, it is spoken as a native language, second language and lingua-franca across Ethiopia and beyond. Regardless of its scope in terms of number of speakers and geographical area it covers, Afan Oromo as a literary language is only emerging due ...
Tópico(s): Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
2021 - Academy Publication | Theory and Practice in Language Studies
Gutema Yadesa Heyyi, Abebayehu Messele Mekonnen,
... Federal working language of the country, as its lingua franca. Afan Oromo, another language with wider usage in the country, ...
Tópico(s): Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
2023 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Asian and African Studies