Oromo

Oromo belongs to the Cushitic languages among the afro-asiatic language family. With appr. 28 million speakers in Ethiopia, Somalia and northern Kenya it is one of the most important languages in Africa, along with Arabic, Swahili and Hausa.

Language Courses

Catherine Griefenow-Mewis / Tamene Bitima: Lehrbuch des Oromo. Eine praktische Einführung
Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Volume 6

Catherine Griefenow-Mewis / Tamene Bitima: Oromo-Übungsbuch
Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Volume 10

Grammatical Analyses and Sketches

Catherine Griefenow-Mewis: A Grammatical Sketch of Written Oromo
Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 16

Harry Stroomer: A Grammar of Boraana Oromo (Kenya)
Cushitic Language Studies Volume 11

Dictionaries and Proverb Collections

Catherine Griefenow-Mewis / Tamene Bitima (eds.): Oromo Oral Poetry Seen from Within
Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen Volume 20

Tamene Bitima: A Dictionary of Oromo Technical Terms. Oromo – English
Cushitic Language Studies Volume 15

Tasgara Hirpo: Goldgrube. Oromo-Sprichwörter und -Redewendungen
Cushitic Language Studies Volume 12

Harry Stroomer: A Concise Vocabulary of Orma Oromo (Kenya). Orma – English, English – Orma
Cushitic Language Studies Volume 16

Conference Proceedings

Catherine Griefenow-Mewis / Rainer M. Voigt (eds.): Cushitic and Omotic Languages. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium, Berlin, March 17–19, 1994