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Born near Hurumu in modern Ethiopia, Onesimos lost his father when he was four years old.According to an account he later wrote for the Board of the Swedish Evangelical Mission, he was kidnapped by slavers in 1869, and passed through the hands of eight owners until Werner Munzinger freed him at Massawa and had him educated at the Imkullu Swedish Evangelical Mission in that port city. [2]
She was assigned to compile an Oromo dictionary, which was first used in polishing a translation of the New Testament published in 1893. Aster also translated a book of Bible stories and recorded five hundred traditional Oromo riddles , fables, proverbs , and songs, many of which were published in a volume for beginning readers (1894).
In the Guji Zone where most Gujis are found, there are three major religions: original Oromo religion (), Islam and Christianity. [2]However, according to the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), 60% of the population said they were Protestant Christianity, and 2.11% said they practised Orthodox Christianity.
The Oromo people (pron. / ˈ ɒr əm oʊ / ORR-əm-oh [11] Oromo: Oromoo) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya. [12] They speak the Oromo language (also called Afaan Oromoo), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [12] They are one of the largest ethnic ...
Afaan Oromo 'Oromo (language)', Afaan Oromootiin 'in Oromo'-dhaan following a long vowel; yeroo 'time', yeroodhaan 'on time' bawuu 'to come out, coming out', bawuudhaan 'by coming out' Locative The locative is used for nouns that represent general locations of events or states, roughly at. For more specific locations, Oromo uses prepositions or ...
Ganomeh was born in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, [1] then known as Abyssinia, the daughter of Jai Tshasseda Odah, an Oromo (or Galla) leader. She was orphaned when she was a young girl, and trafficked as a slave, first in Sudan, and then in Cairo, under the name "Fatme" (or Fatima).
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Southern Oromo, or Borana (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, such as the Sakuye.