Oromo Oral Poetry Seen from Within

Edited by: Catherine Griefenow-Mewis, Tamene Bitima. With an introduction by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †. With contributions by: Debela Goshu, Ronny Meyer, Abdullahi A. Shongolo, Tadesse Jaleta Jirata, Tamene Bitima, Tesema Ta’a. Series edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †.

Series: WK Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages Volume 20

CONTENTS

Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: Introduction

Tesema Ta’a: Oromo traditional songs

Tamene Bitima: On some Oromo historical poems

Abdullahi A. Shongolo: Boran traditional blessings and prayers

Dabala Goshu / Ronny Meyer: A people blessed and accursed by God – The Waata around lake Zway

Tadesse Jaleta Jirata: Social functions of Oromo proverbs

Tamene Bitima: Oromo riddles

Under these links you will find dictionaries, grammar books and text collections of Oromo and Oromo dialects, as well as further proverb collections:

Accompanying material:

• A Concise Vocabulary of Orma Oromo (Kenya) (ISBN 978-3-89645-063-0)
• A Dictionary of Oromo Technical Terms (ISBN 978-3-89645-295-5)
• A Grammar of Boraana Oromo (Kenya) (ISBN 978-3-89645-485-0)
• A Grammatical Sketch of Written Oromo (ISBN 978-3-89645-039-5)
• Goldgrube – Oromo-Sprichwörter und -Redewendungen (ISBN 978-3-927620-29-2)
• Towards the Genetic Classification of the Afaan Oromoo Dialects (ISBN 978-3-89645-487-4)

Cross-reference:

• Colloque international sur les langues couchitiques et les peuples qui les parlent – International Conference on Cushitic Languages and Peoples (ISBN 978-3-89645-489-8)
• Cushitic and Omotic Languages (ISBN 978-3-927620-28-5)
• Lehrbuch des Oromo (ISBN 978-3-927620-05-6)
• Lehrbuch des Oromo (ISBN 978-3-89645-578-9)
• Omotic and Cushitic Language Studies (ISBN 978-3-89645-482-9)
• Oromo Übungsbuch (ISBN 978-3-927620-11-7)
• Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic Languages, Paris, 16-18 April 2008 (ISBN 978-3-89645-488-1)

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