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|rels = Christianity 48.2% (Ethiopian Orthodox 30.5% & Protestants 17.7%), Sunni Islam 47.5%, traditional religion 3.3% |langs = Afaan Oromo • Amharic • Tigrinya |related = Afar • Agaw • Amhara • Beja • Saho • Somali and other Cushitic peoples. |footnotes = }} The Oromo people ((オロモ語:Oromoo); ; ''’Oromo'') are an ethnic group inhabiting Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and parts of Somalia.〔Merriam-Webster Inc, Frederick C. Mish, ''Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary'', (Merriam-Webster: 2003), p.876〕 With around 25 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnicity in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa, at approximately 35% of Ethiopia's population according to the 2007 census.〔The CSA estimates a population growth of 7.6% between the time the census was conducted and the date of its approval: 〕 Oromos speak the Oromo language as a mother tongue (also called ''Afaan Oromoo'' and ''Oromiffa''), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The name was given as ''Ilm’ Orma'' ("Sons of Men" or an eponymous 'Orma') in the 19th century;〔"Gallas" in ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' 11th ed. 1911.〕 the present form is probably an obsolete plural of the same word ''orma'' ("person, stranger").〔"(Oromo )" in the ''Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary''.〕 ==Origins== Oromos are the largest Cushitic-speaking group of people living in Northeast Africa. Available information suggests that they have existed as a community in the Horn of Africa for several millennia (Prouty et al., 1981). While further research is needed to precisely comprehend their origins, the Oromo are believed to have originally adhered to a pastoralist/nomadic and/or semi-agriculturalist lifestyle. Many historians agree that some Oromo clans (Bale) have lived in the southern tip of present-day Ethiopia for over a millennium. They suggest that a Great trade-influenced Oromo population movement brought most Oromos to present-day central and western Ethiopia in the 16th and 17th centuries.〔(Oromo population movement to central Ethiopia )〕 Historical maps of the ancient Aksum/Abyssinian Empire and Adal/Somali empires indicate that Oromo people are newcomers to most of modern-day central Ethiopia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oromo people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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