Xiinxala Gosoota Himootaa Mammaaksota Oromoo. (Oromo)
In: Gadaa Journal, Jg. 5 (2022), Heft 1, S. 22-37
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This study examines the sentence type of Oromoo proverbs. The basic objective is to reveal the overriding sentence type employed in Oromoo proverbs. To meet this end, based on document analysis both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. The universe of this study consist of 6981 proverbs in four volumes of Oromoo proverbs collection and the sample size is determined as 1000. The numbers of samples were selected using systematic random sampling method. Findings show that based on sentence category of structure and function even though they are not equal in their frequency, all sentence types were used in Oromoo proverbs. In structure category, compound (31.2%), simple (29.3%) and complex (28.9%) sentences are significantly used. It is remarkably seen that from function category declarative sentences (99.5%) are much more used rather than interrogative (0.3%), imperative (0.1%) and exclamatory (0.1%) sentences. Findings also show that the shortest proverbs were found to have 2 words while the longest had 22 words. However, it was found that the mean Oromoo proverb word length was 6.24. To conclude, Oromoo proverbs are always based on some form of sentence structure. However, further research in the area of linguistics needs to be conducted. Therefore, it is important to conduct further studies by scholars of linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Xiinxala Gosoota Himootaa Mammaaksota Oromoo. (Oromo)
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Addunyaa, Girmaa Guddataa |
Zeitschrift: | Gadaa Journal, Jg. 5 (2022), Heft 1, S. 22-37 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2616-3977 (print) |
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