Southern Oromo, or Afaan Oromoo (after one of its dialects), is a variety of
Oromo spoken in southern
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
and northern
Kenya
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by the
Borana people
The Borana is one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people. They live in the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region and Liben Zone of the Somali Region of Ethiopia, former Northern Frontier District of Northern Kenya,Tana River in the former co ...
. Günther Schlee also notes that it is the native language of a number of related peoples, such as the
Sakuye
The Sakuye are a clan of the Oromo people living in Marsabit, Tana River, Garissa, Wajir, Mandera and Isiolo Counties, Northern Frontier District Region, now Northern Kenya.
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"Interethnic Clan Identities among Cushitic-Speaking Pastoralists", ''Africa''
55 (1985),p. 21
Dialects are Borana proper (Boran, Borena), possibly Arsi (Arussi, Arusi) and Guji (Gujji, Jemjem) in Ethiopia and, in
Kenya
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, Karayu, Salale (Selale), Gabra (Gabbra, Gebra) and possibly
Orma and
Waata
The Waata (Waat, Watha), or Sanye, are an Oromo-speaking people of Kenya and former hunter-gatherers. They share the name ''Sanye'' with the neighboring Dahalo.
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The language is locally and commonly known as ''Afaan Oromoo("Oromo language").
References
Languages of Ethiopia
Languages of Kenya
Oromo groups
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