Southern Oromo, or Borana (after one of its dialects), is a variety of Oromo spoken in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya by the Borana people. Günther Schlee also notes that it is the native language of a number of related peoples, such as the Sakuye.[2]
southern, oromo, language, southern, oromo, borana, after, dialects, variety, oromo, spoken, southern, ethiopia, northern, kenya, borana, people, günther, schlee, also, notes, that, native, language, number, related, peoples, such, sakuye, southern, oromoboran. Southern Oromo or Borana after one of its dialects is a variety of Oromo spoken in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya by the Borana people Gunther Schlee also notes that it is the native language of a number of related peoples such as the Sakuye 2 Southern OromoBoranaRegionKenya EthiopiaEthnicityBorana Oromo SakuyeNative speakers3 9 million 2000 2009 1 Language familyAfro Asiatic CushiticLowland EastOromoidOromoSouthern OromoLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code gax class extiw title iso639 3 gax gax a Glottologbora1271Dialects are Borana proper Boran Borena possibly Arsi Arussi Arusi and Guji Gujji Jemjem in Ethiopia and in Kenya Karayu Salale Selale Gabra Gabbra Gebra and possibly Orma and Waata citation needed The language is locally and commonly known as Afaan Borana Borana language citation needed Contents 1 Phonology 1 1 Consonants 1 2 Vowels 2 ReferencesPhonology EditConsonants Edit Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar GlottalNasal m n ɲ ŋ Stop Affricate voiceless p t t ʃ kvoiced b d d ʒejective pʼ tʼ t ʃʼ kʼimplosive ɗFricative voiceless f s ʃ hvoiced z Rhotic rLateral lApproximant w jSounds k kʼ can be heard as fricatives x xʼ when in intervocalic position n can be heard as ŋ when occurring before velar sounds ɗ can also have a retroflex allophone ɖ and can also be heard as a tap ɾ in intervocalic position Sounds p z only occur in loanwords Vowels Edit Front Central BackClose i iː u uːMid e eː o oːOpen a aːVowel sounds i e a o can also be heard as ɪ ɛ ʌ ɔ 3 References Edit Oromo Borana Arsi Guji Ethnologue Retrieved 2018 12 12 Schlee Gunther 1985 Interethnic Clan Identities among Cushitic Speaking Pastoralists Africa 55 1 21 doi 10 2307 1159837 JSTOR 1159837 Stroomer Harry 1995 A Grammar of Boraana Oromo Kenya Phonology Morphology Vocabularies Koln Koppe This Afroasiatic languages related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Southern Oromo language amp oldid 1181213804, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
