Oromo
Oromo (Afaan Oromo) is one of a small group of similar languages spoken for centuries by the Oromo people.  The Oromo, the largest ethnic group, comprise 50%-60% or about 25 million of the population of the Ethiopian Empire State. They are "a very ancient race, the indigenous stock, perhaps, on which most other peoples in this part of Eastern Africa (the Horn of Africa) had been grafted"  They live in east Africa in several countries, but mostly in Oromia, now included in Ethiopia. Today there are more than 250,000 Oromo refugees throughout Africa.  Some sources suggest that up to 20,000 Oromo people are still political prisoners.

Afaan Oromo, a highly developed spoken language, is at the top of the list of the distinct and separate 1000 or so languages used in Africa, the most polyglot of the continents. It is classified  as one of the Kushitic languages spoken in the Ethiopian Empire, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Kenya.

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