Oromo language

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/oromo-language

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the language family?Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
2. What is the primary geographic distribution?Horn of Africa, with the majority of speakers residing in Ethiopia
3. What is the Oromo language and where is it spoken?Oromo, also called Afaan Oromoo, is a major East African language spoken by about 30 to 35 million people in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. It is the most widely spoken language in Ethiopia.
4. How do people write Oromo?In the 20th century, Oromo started using the Latin alphabet with special marks. Before that, it was mainly spoken and passed down through oral stories.

Afro-Asiatic Phylum: A major language family comprising languages spoken across North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Western Asia.
Oral Tradition: The transmission of cultural knowledge, history, and stories through spoken language rather than written records.
Agglutinative Language: A language in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each with a single grammatical meaning.
Qubee: The Oromo alphabet based on the Latin script, officially adopted in the late 20th century.