Documentation And Descriptions Of Traditional Naming Among Oromo The Case Of Oromia Special Zone Around Finfinne In The Sebeta Awas District (woreda)

This study ex plored the tradi tional naming pract ices among the Oromo who live in thernSebeta Awas Distri ct (Woreda). It has attempted to document describe and analyze the ritualrnpractices of bestowal of nam ing the ch ildren in Qaalluu In stitution and parentage system. Itrnalso produced some lingui st ic annotation and the 'ELAN' so ftware. Besides, somernphonological and semantica l aspects of A fan Oromo personal names were described. Thisrnstudy em pl oyed the qu alitat ive method of research. In this case, th e data were gath ered overrnthree months period through observat ion, interviews, Video, Audio, and image records atrnthe study sites. Th is study also fou nd th at rite of naming in the Qaalluu in stitution wererninnuenced by the expansions of Chri sti anity and Islam reli gions in the stud y area. It wasrnalso found that the tradit ional or the cultural concept of bestowal of naming the children isrnheing converted to a mechanica l compounding words whi ch may lose the symbolicrnrep resentation of cu ltu re of the Oromo peop le. It is fo und that such mechani cal coinage ofrnnam ing seems abstract and lacks clari ty. Thus, I would suggest th at a mechani ca l attemptsrnnam ing sho uld be careful ly bestowed to get clear cultural representation and needs to bernrev ita lized to protect cultural va lue.

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