Rayyaa

The Rayyaa Oromo People (Oromo: Raayyaa) are an subgroup of Oromo clans inhabiting an area from the historic Wollo Province to Lake Ashenge Tigray Province in Ethiopia, along Wollo Oromo and Yejju Oromo people. [1]

Language

The Rayyaa Oromo are agriculturalist and music-loving Cushitic Oromo people who speak Oromo and occasionally Tigrinya due proximity with Tigray people. However, linguistic descriptions of the Rayyaa and nearby Wollo areas are still lacking.[2]

See also

List of Oromo subgroups and clans

References

Ta'a, Tesema (2006). The Political Economy of an African Society in Transformation: the Case of Macca Ethiopia. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 28. ISBN 9783447054195.
Mukarovsky, Hans G. (1991). Proceedings of the fifth International Hamito-Semitic Congress: Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, Semitic. Afro-Pub. p. 65. ISBN 9783850430579.

Ethnic groups in Ethiopia

Cushitic	Afar Agaw Daasanach Gabra Hadiya Irob Kambaata Konso Oromo Qemant Saho Sidama Somalis Tsamai Wayto Werji
Semitic	Amhara Argobba Chebo Gurage Harari Silt'e Tigrayan Zay
Omotic	Aari Arbore Awi Banna Basketo Bench Chara Danta Dawro Dizi Dorze Gamo Gedeo Gofa Hamar Konta Koore Maale Shinasha Welayta Yemsa

Non-Indigenous

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