Borana language

Borana language

Infobox Language
name=Borana
region=Kenya
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Cushitic
fam3=East
iso3=gax
The Borana language is an Oromo language spoken in Southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya by the Borana Oromo people.

In ISO 639 it belongs to the Oromo macrolanguage (see ).

External links

*http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gax


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