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In Ethiopia, Authorities’ Reshuffling of the Oromo Language Alphabet Touches a Nerve

Authorities in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest state, have infuriated language experts and Oromo nationalists with their decision to re-arrange the order of the alphabet of the region’s language, Afan ...
MinnPost

A growing Oromo community struggles for visibility in Minnesota

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. When Feyisa ...
MinnPost

Effort to engage Minnesota’s Oromo community starts with a not-so-simple task: figuring out how many Oromo there are in Minnesota

OCIM estimates up to 40,000 Oromo people living in Minnesota, but the state demographer’s office puts that number closer to 8,500. Abdissa Loke is tired of being mistaken for Somali. Loke and ...
ZDNet

Meta's massive multilingual translation opus still stumbles on Greek, Armenian, Oromo

Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, on Wednesday unveiled its latest effort in machine translation, a 190-page opus describing how it has used deep learning forms of neural nets to double ...
Twin Cities Daily Planet

Minneapolis College the first to offer Afaan Oromo in the U.S.

The Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC) will be the first college in the U.S. to offer an Afaan Oromo course this September, the instructor said. Adjunct Instructor Mathias Gudina will ...