The Oromo people (pron. / ˈɒrəmoʊ / ORR-əm-oh[11] Oromo: Oromoo) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya. [12] . They speak the Oromo language (also called Afaan Oromoo), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [12] .

2025年2月9日 · Oromo, the largest ethnolinguistic group of Ethiopia, constituting more than one-third of the population and speaking a language of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Originally confined to the southeast of the country, the Oromo migrated in waves of invasions in the 16th century ce .

2021年3月27日 · The Oromo are a Cushitic ethnic group and nation indigenous to Ethiopia and Kenya who speak the Oromo language. They are Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, accounting for 34.5 percent of the country’s population.

2024年10月16日 · The Oromo people are one of the largest ethnic groups in East Africa, predominantly found in Ethiopia’s Oromia region and parts of northern Kenya. Their language, Oromo (or Afaan Oromoo), belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, marking them as a significant Cushitic-speaking group.

The term Oromia, signifying an independent Oromo state, is important to the Oromo allowing them to consolidate their various regional and related groups into one Oromo nation. Oromo have a long history of oppression, land loss, and marginalization by the central government in Ethiopia, dating back more than a century.

The Oromo are Cushitic (Kushitic) people who live in the east African region known as the horn of Africa since ancient times. Sodere near Adama (Nazreth), and Sof-Omar in Ballie (about ten miles long natural tunnel) are special attractions.

The Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, have a rich cultural heritage rooted in their unique language, Afaan Oromo, and their traditional socio-political system, known as the Gadaa system. This indigenous democratic system has been central to Oromo identity, guiding social, political, and religious life for centuries.

2022年3月20日 · The Cushitic branch and the major components of the Afro-Asiatic family, Oromo, is by far the largest ethnolinguistic ethnicity in Ethiopia. The region consists of more than one-third of the country’s population, which was originally confined to the southeast of the country.

2015年2月12日 · The Oromo resisted Ethiopian colonial expansion and domination both militarily and culturally in localized and scattered ways during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

2024年3月11日 · The Oromo people are indigenous to the regions of Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya in the Horn of Africa. By the 16th century, many Oromo people settled in modern-day Ethiopia, sometimes displacing other groups.