These is for Oromo brothers but anyone who knows history can answer too. So in the past Oromo people used Geez alphabets for their language..even some of my relatives still use the Geez alphabet to write in Oromigna. Now it’s changed to Latin alphabet. So when did it change? And why??
Oct 06, 2020Oromona amara 1 endayhon lyunet lemefter endetederege na be yihadeg zemen endetederege semchalehu
Oct 06, 2020The answer is more linguistic than political. You see, Afaan Oromoo happens to have a total of 10 vowel sounds and being able to distinguish between these is essential for any written AO text. Afaan Oromoo is also a highly stressed language; which syllable is stressed in a word matters way more than it does in many Ethiopian and European languages. Geez can only represent a maximum of 6 of these vowel sounds and none of the stresses. So, Afaan Oromoo would have had to invent a whole new version of Geez to represent words properly making both digitization and typewriting impossible. That little experiment of using Geez to write Afaan Oromoo during the Derg is nearly incomprehensible and it butchered the language, forcing it to lose all subtlety. The latin alphabet allows Afaan Oromoo not to compromise on any of these linguistic characteristics, which is why it is also used by Somali, Sidama and many other Ethiopian languages. Qubee wasn't adopted by the EPRDF, in fact the OLF had long been using it to produce AO text before the then OPDO declared it the official Afaan Oromoo orthography in the early 1990s. Hope this answers your questions. But to those of you still complaining, I'll tell you that Oromos will damn well use any script they like and you don't get a fucking opinion.
Oct 07, 2020This is correct. But there are still a couple of corrections. The 1st one is the geez script used to write amharic (yes there is such a thing) has 7 vowels not 6. The 2nd is more subtle, while you are right that the current version used in amharic doesnt hv the necessary mechanism to display stresses in the old amharic scripts (old as in at least 200 or 300 years) written there was such a mechanism to display stress or loose. I learnt it in Ba'aata Monastry, it used lines above the consonat to show stress and dot above the vowel to show long vowels. The last thing is language should not a tool for politicians. OLF used qubee during the Durgue days and when the Durgue fell a 1000 hayyoota ABO decided that Qubee was the script to be used and OPDO just kept that. While I have no problem with using Qubee to write the lang, the way that happened is the ultimate tastement to the sheer extreme elitism & undemocracticness of that generation. Even then Oromoo was 30% - 35% of the population, a population of 50 mill. If we take the lowest number then that means a 1000 OLF people decided without even consulting (let alone letting them decide) for 15 mill and 1000s of OPDO people declared it as such. Natsaanat yammayawquu natsaa awcciiwoch.
Oct 07, 2020When: 1970s E.C. Why: Well identity crisis reached its pick during DERG and Qubee was adapted using the latin alphabet, the english language uses, but there is more to the story and i am not qualified to answer. But i want to mention that they should considered the "Sapalo Afan Oromoffia script" (writing system & alphabet) invented by Sheikh Bakri Sapalo (born Abubakar Garad Usman; November 1895 - 5 April 1980). Whom was an Oromo scholar, poet & religious teacher.
Oct 06, 2020I knew it eneko kedro jemro sew endet ageru Fidel eyalew be wchi Hager fidelat yitsifalu endet endi yideregal leka it's yeseraw and akal
Oct 07, 2020Seems like that..
Oct 07, 2020It is changed in 1965 by Haile Fida (even though it is revised ) but as Afan Oromo was banned language until 1993 (1983), you will be killed if they caught you writing in latin alphabet (my father was almost the victim). The reason it is changed is... the scholars refused to update Geez alphabet which can definitely shows "mitebku, milalu, mirezmu, miyatru fidelat". so these thinGs cannot be shown in geez. So it is started to use latin one
Oct 08, 2020I believe around 27 years ago
Oct 07, 2020Changed after derg leave power....by greate role of OLF if u know well oromic... be geez btam ykebdal mirezmbet ena etiretu lay sense aysetm ....more preefeble yhone Latin nw😎
Oct 07, 2020Bederg aydelem beza zemen endew be geez alphabet ye oromigna newspaper neber keza buhala nw yetekeyere yemihonew
Oct 07, 2020