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Last Updated on Thursday, 31 August 2023 15:13

The Oromo Case File

About This Case File: Data from the DP Positions Questionnaire has been entered into the Afranaph Database.
(Last updated August 2023)
 
Oromo
 
  •  DP Positions Questionnaire [pdf]
  •  Bibligraphy of work on Oromo [in progress]
 
 
 

 

 

 

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 Oromo Case File Consultant 

Picture Youssouf Tamam

Tamam Ahmed Youssouf is a graduate student of linguistics at the University of Toronto, Canada. He worked extensively on Oromo orthography and standardization of the language. He wrote his Major Research Paper for his Master’s degree on “Issues in the Oromo Orthography” at York University also in Toronto Canada. His main interest is standardization of the Oromo language that has estimated speakers of over 30 million in Ethiopia alone. He has written a handbook of basic Oromo literacy in 1993, a guide on standardization of the Oromo language in 2008, an Oromo-Oromo dictionary with English equivalent, with Mr. Taha Abdi, in 2013 and is currently working on electronic bilingual dictionary. He has written articles on issues of the orthography, gender, copula and other topics of the Oromo language. He is a coordinator of the Caucus to Study and Preserve the Oromo language.