- Borana people
Infobox Ethnic group
group = Borana
popplace =Ethiopia ,Kenya
languages = Borana
rels=Islam (16%), traditional religion [http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=GAX Borana Oromo (Ethnologue)] ]
related-c = Oromo, Barentu:"Borana is also an alternate Spanish name of the Boran sub-family of the largerWitotoan language family."The Borana, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist ethnic group living in southernEthiopia (Oromia ) and northernKenya . They are a sub-group of theOromo people [cite web |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4200%28199602%2926%3A1%3C56%3ATEAMPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage|title=The Eagle as Messenger, Pilgrim and Voice: Divinatory Processes among the Waso Boorana of Kenya|last=Aguilar|first=Mario|accessdate=2007-10-27|publisher=Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 26, Fasc. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 56-72 ] and represent one of the two halves of the original Oromos (the other half being the Barentu). They are nomadic, but recently some Borana have taken up agriculture.They speak Borana, or "afaani Boraana", a
Cushitic language. Roughly 200,000 people identify as Boranas. [Harvnb|Appiah|Gates|1999|p=288.]Notes
References
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Further reading
* Asmerom Legesse, "Gada"
* Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, "Some records of Ethiopia" Hakluyt Society, 1954
* Bassi Marco, "Decisions in the Shade. Political and juridical processes among the Oromo-Borana" Red Sea Press, 2005
* Clifford H F Plowman CMG OBE, "Notes On The Gedamoch Ceremonies Among The Boran", "(Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 18, No. 70 (Jan., 1919), pp. 114-121 )"
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