Rayyaa
The Rayyaa Oromo people (Oromo: Raayyaa) are a subgroup of Oromo clans inhabiting an area from the historic Wollo Province to Lake Ashenge Tigray Province in Ethiopia, along with the Wollo Oromo and Yejju Oromo people.[1]
Language
The Rayyaa Oromo are an agriculturalist Cushitic Oromo people who speak Oromo and occasionally Tigrinya, due proximity with the Tigray people. However, linguistic descriptions of the Rayyaa and nearby Wollo areas are still lacking.[2]
See also
References
- Ta'a, Tesema (2006). The Political Economy of an African Society in Transformation: the Case of Macca Ethiopia. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 28. ISBN 9783447054195.
- Mukarovsky, Hans G. (1991). Proceedings of the fifth International Hamito-Semitic Congress: Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, Semitic. Afro-Pub. p. 65. ISBN 9783850430579.
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