What are the substrates in the individual Oromo variants:
For example, what is the substratum in Eastern Oromo? In West-Central? Are there several? What is the dominant one if any? Is this even known? I had a very good book on Oromo linguistics gifted to me once for my birthday but sadly lost it, didn't finish reading it and didn't get to see if it ever touched on substrates.
I imagine that, considering that Oromos were historically a very expansionist people who assimilated other Horner ethnic groups, there'd be many substrates within the various Oromo dialects but some googling for a little while yielded poor results so I wanted some help from some of our resident Oromos on here. Any lurkers would be welcomed as well.
For example, what is the substratum in Eastern Oromo? In West-Central? Are there several? What is the dominant one if any? Is this even known? I had a very good book on Oromo linguistics gifted to me once for my birthday but sadly lost it, didn't finish reading it and didn't get to see if it ever touched on substrates.
I imagine that, considering that Oromos were historically a very expansionist people who assimilated other Horner ethnic groups, there'd be many substrates within the various Oromo dialects but some googling for a little while yielded poor results so I wanted some help from some of our resident Oromos on here. Any lurkers would be welcomed as well.
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