Southern Oromo language

Borana
Southern Oromo
Region Kenya, Ethiopia
Ethnicity Borana Oromo, Sakuye
Native speakers
 unknown (undated figure of 4.0 million)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gax
Glottolog bora1271[2]

Borana, or Southern Oromo, 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.[3]

Dialects 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. The language is locally and commonly known as "afaan borana" i.e. the "borana language".

References

  1. ↑ Borana at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Schlee, "Interethnic Clan Identities among Cushitic-Speaking Pastoralists", Africa, 55 (1985),p. 21


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