How to count in Oromo

Enter a number and read it spelled out in Oromo.

Language overview

Language belonging to the Cushitic family, Oromo (also known as Afaan Oromoo or Oromiffa), is spoken by the Oromo people, mainly in Ethiopia, but also in Kenya and Somalia. It counts about 35 million speakers, hence the third most spoken language in Africa.
Due to lack of data, we can only count accurately up to 9,999 in Oromo. Please contact us if you can help us counting up from that limit.

Oromo numbering rules

  • Digits from zero to nine are specific words, namely duwwa [0], tokko [1], lama [2], sadi [3], afur [4], shan [5], jaya [6], torba [7], saddeet [8], and sagal [9].
  • The tens are formed by adding the suffix -(a)tama to the matching digit root, with the exception of ten, twenty and thirty: khudan [10], digdama [20], soddoma [30], afurtama [40], shantama [50], jaatama [60], torbatama [70], saddeetama [80], and sagaltama [90].
  • Composed numbers from eleven to ninety-one are constructed by saying the modified ten first, followed by the digit separated with a hyphen. The composed ten either looses its ending -n (khudan [10] gives khuda-tokko [11]) or sees its ending modified from -a to -ii (digdama [20] gives digdamii-lama [22]).
  • The word for hundred is dhibba, and the word for thousand is kuma.

Books

Numbers list

1 – tokko
2 – lama
3 – sadi
4 – afur
5 – shan
6 – jaya
7 – torba
8 – saddeet
9 – sagal
10 – khudan
11 – khuda-tokko
12 – khuda-lama
13 – khuda-sadi
14 – khuda-afur
15 – khuda-shan
16 – khuda-jaya
17 – khuda-torba
18 – khuda-saddeet
19 – khuda-sagal
20 – digdama
30 – soddoma
40 – afurtama
50 – shantama
60 – jaatama
70 – torbatama
80 – saddeetama
90 – sagaltama
100 – dhibba
1,000 – kuma

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