Mereja Forum

[OPFist]

The Ongoing Political Devide Since 1270 of Yekuno’s Era is Revering Amharigna vs Respecting Oromiffa!

The political devide, which started in 1270 take over of power by Yekuno Amlak (culturally Amaranized biological Oromo), is simply between the royal family, who spoke Lisane Negus (Amarigna) and common citizens at the area, who used Agawigna and Oromiffa. Logically, the language of the royals was revered and languages of the citizens were despised. Accordingly, the common citizen started to compete and strive to be fluent in speaking the Lisane Negus. Through this process, majority of the Agaw in Gojjam, Gondar and Lalibella as well as most of the Oromo in Raya, Shoa and Wallo become Amaranized. This process of Amaranization is still going in in the whole Ethiopia, specially in cities starting from Finfinne. How many of us have children and grand children, who lost the primary language of their parents and only can speak Amarigna? Dr. Abiy and his prosperitan group belong to those, who rever Amarigna, instead of giving due respect to Agawigna and Oromiffa. Even some OLFites, who used to struggle for further development of Afaan Oromo joined Dr. Abiy just to try to speak fluent Amarigna, forgetting their duty of promoting Afaan Oromo to primary working language of the federation.
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[OPFist]

Now, it is up to the genuine Oromo nationalists to change this trend. We have to persuade Dr. Abiy his prosperitan group to stop revering Amarigna and to start respecting Oromiffa. Afaan Oromo deserves to be promoted to its legitimate position of being primary language of the federation, replacing Amarigna. I Wonder how Dr. Dima Nagaw (previous OLF leader) lost a gut not to speak Afaan Oromo in the parlament, which even Ob. Bulcha Damaksa proudly did years back. Who ever thought that the OLFites supporting Dr.Abiy are so quick to strive in speaking Amarigna, instead of further trying to develop and promote Afaan Oromo? They also seem to rever the Lisane Nigus at cost of languages of the common citizens. We like it or not, the current political conflict and struggle ist not necessarily based on difference of class, ethnie, region, ideology or religion, but surely caused by preference of language. It is actually the fight between two language groups of the same biological ethnie. I can even simplify and say that the conflict is between Amarigna revering Oromo and Oromiffa respecting Oromo. I hope the second shall prevail. May Waaqa help us!

[Axumezana]

OPFist change of languages are evolutionary rather than revolutionary. If Abiy changes the working language to Oromifa over night, it will further destabilize Ethiopia. In my view as far as Oromos in Oromia uses their own language, Oromifa will have the opportunity to grow and replace Amharic down the line.