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Oromo orthographic history In my contribution to Marcello Lamberti’s festschrift (Voigt 2011), I referred to the early Oromo literature that was written in the Latin and Ethiopic scripts. The earliest written documents are owed to the indefatigable endeavour of Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810-1881), who also rendered outstanding services to other languages spoken in the Horn of Africa. Initially Krapf used the Latin script, but he later changed over to the Ethiopic script, which consequently was ad... |
