Modern Afaan Oromo Grammar

Modern Afaan Oromo Grammar
Author: Taha M. Roba
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2004
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781418474805

This publication is second the edition of Oromo handbook designed to teach the Oromo language to those who can speak the language but are unable to read, and for those whose children were born outside their homeland and are living in foreign land they now call home and for those who are interested in learning one of the major languages of Africa. The Oromo language is spoken by close to 40 million people in Ethiopia, and the second largest languages in Africa. It is spoken by a significant number of people living in the Northern part of Kenya as well. This book is a testimony to the resistance of the Oromo language and how it survived over a century of Abyssinian onslaught. By reading this handbook one can understand the origin, the present, and the future state of the Oromo people and their culture. This work is distinguished because it brings out the Oromo oral tradition. It is also manifestation of the unique Oromo traditional ability to integrate numbers and their significance in everyday life.

Modern Afaan Oromo Grammar

Modern Afaan Oromo Grammar
Author: Taha M. Roba
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1524674710

This publication is the second edition of the Oromo Textbook. It is designed to teach the Oromo language to those who can speak the language but are unable to read it; for those children who were born and live outside their homeland; and for those who are interested in learning one of the major languages of Africa. The Oromo language is spoken by close to 40 million people in Ethiopia and northern Kenya and is the second or third largest language in Africa. It is a testament to the resilience of the Oromo language and how it survived over a century of Abyssinian onslaught and suppression. By reading this handbook one can grasp aspects of Oromo culture, systems of thought the principle of social organization and the art of communication. Rare among Oromo educational material, this volume reads smoothly; from learning the sounds of Oromo alphabets also known as qubee, to reading, and understanding the Oromo language. This work is distinct because it brings out the Oromo oral tradition. It is loaded with specific ways Oromos learned, thought, and preserved their language and culture, the essence of their Orommumma (Oromomness). This book strives to fill the void of Oromo educational material not only in North- America, but also in Oromia (Ethiopia), where teaching and learning the Oromo language outlawed by successive Ethiopian regimes and not sufficiently developed under the current government. This book will undoubtedly emerge as a conversation and discussion piece in the learning and teaching of the Oromo language, Oromo history and tradition of the Oromo people.

Modern Oromo

Modern Oromo
Author: KASAHOROW.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781522972976

Learn simple Oromo for getting around and making friends.Modern Oromo is a concise, portable and easy-to-grasp reference of the Oromo language.This kasahorow language guide includes a basic grammar of Oromo for readers and writers.Written in Modern Oromo. Modern Oromo is a simplified spelling system used to write all the varieties of spoken Oromo.Subscribe to the online magazine "Oromo kasahorow" to read Modern Oromo.

Afaan Oromo As Second Language

Afaan Oromo As Second Language
Author: Ibsaa Guutama
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 145661794X

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 turn their attention towards East Africa, specifically Oromia. The first step towards this may be learning their language. This little book will offer you that opportunity. It is presented in a possible easy but sure way to help you understand its basics.

Oromo Learner's Dictionary

Oromo Learner's Dictionary
Author: OROMO. KASAHOROW
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-11-17
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9781503270862

Oromo kasahorow. Learn to read Modern Oromo! The Oromo Learner's Dictionary is a beginner's dictionary for your multilingual child to develop their Oromo and English reading skills.Contains basic nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern Oromo language book.Discover the joy of reading in Oromo and English together with your multilingual child.Suitable for children 8 to 12 years old.

Afan Oromo

Afan Oromo
Author: Abebe Bulto
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-05-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530672462

Approximately 200 pages of essential vocabulary, common phrases, grammar, and verb conjugations for the Afan Oromo (Oromiffa) language. Written from the perspective of a native English speaker - useful for anyone visiting or working in Ethiopia's Oromia region. A great tool for Oromo-Ethiopian diaspora to teach children their native tongue.

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1661
Release: 2017-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1316790665

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.

Terminology and Language Planning

Terminology and Language Planning
Author: Bassey Antia
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2000-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027298645

Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of ‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. With respect to terminology, this book suggests that to be relevant and sustainable, current LP would have to define its mission as the deregulation of access to specialised knowledge, and correspondingly be founded on substantially different methods and theoretical bases: epistemology and ontology of specialised domains; research on language for special purposes (LSP) and collocations; corpus linguistics; knowledge extraction and knowledge representation; language engineering technologies. On the one hand, the book recommends itself to decision-makers and language planning project managers. On the other, it should be of interest to students of LSP and terminology, language planning, concept and object theories, knowledge modelling, artificial intelligence, text and corpus management, translation process analysis, text and African linguistics.

Languages and Education in Africa

Languages and Education in Africa
Author: Birgit Brock-Utne
Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2009-05-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1873927177

The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training, language policy, lexical development, harmonization efforts, information technology, oral literature and deaf communities. The co-existence of these African languages with English, French and Arabic is examined as well. This wide range of languages and subjects builds on recent field work, giving new empirical evidence from 17 countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as to transnational matters like the harmonization of African transborder languages. As the Editors – a Norwegian social scientist and a Norwegian linguist, both working in Africa – have wanted to give room for African voices, the majority of contributions to this volume come from Africa.