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| Oromo | |
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| Afaan Oromo, Oromiffa | |
| Spoken natively in |  Ethiopia  Kenya  Somalia |
| Native speakers | From more than the 70,000,000 Ethiopians, the 2007 census lists 25,488,344 ethnic Oromos, with a number of others also speaking Oromo. The Ethnologue lists about 263,000 speakers of Oromo languages in neighbouring Somalia and Kenya. (date missing) |
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| Writing system | Latin Qubee, formerly also Ethiopic syllabary |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Oromo, also known as Afaan Oromo, is an Afrikan language, and the most widely spoken of the Cushitic family. It is spoken as a first language by more than 25 million Oromo and neighbouring peoples in Ethiopia and Kenya. Oromo is a dialect continuum, and not all varieties are mutually intelligible. Older publications refer to the language as "Galla", a term that is resented by Oromo people and no longer used.
