Orma Language
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Orma is a variety of the
Oromo language Oromo ( or ; Oromo: ''Afaan Oromoo''), in the linguistic literature of the early 20th century also called Galla (a name with a pejorative meaning and therefore rejected by the Oromo people), is an Afroasiatic language that belongs to the Cushiti ...
spoken by the
Orma people The Orma is one of the Oromo Clans in the Horn of Africa who predominantly live in Tana River County in northern Kenya and in southern Ethiopia. They share a common language and cultural heritage with Oromo clans. First and foremost they are p ...
in
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. It is a dialect of
Southern Oromo Southern Oromo, or Afaan Oromoo (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, su ...
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References

*Hoskins (2011
Phonology of the Orma language
Languages of Kenya {{AfroAsiatic-lang-stub Oromo groups