Adeemsa dhamsagaa daangaa dhamjecha Afaan Oromoo irratti

Kaayyoon qorannoo kanaa adeemsa jijjiirama amala dhamsagaa daangaa dhamjechootaa irratti mul’atu xiinxaluudha. Adeemsi dhamsagaa jechoota Afaan Oromoo keessatti mul’atan kanaan dura qorattootaan qoratameera. Haata’u malee, jijjiirama amalaa dhamsagoonni agarsiisan daangaa dhamjechaarratti dhamsagaafi gurmuu isaaniitiin raawwatu bal’inaan hinxiixalamne. Ka’umsi qorannoo kanaa, adeemsi jijjiirama amala dhamsagaa jecha qeenxee, dhamjecha hi’eentaa daangaa jechaafi daangaa jechoota diigala uuman irratti qorannoolee kanaan duraa keessatti qaawwi jiraachuusaati. Ragaaleen qorannoo kanaa dubbattoota Afaan Oromoo irraa bifa haasaatiin kan walitti qabameefi qorattuun mataansii dubbattuu Afaan Oromoo waan taateef, akka madda ragaatti tajaajilteerti. Tooftaa iddatteessuu kaayyeffataa hordofuun maddoota ragaa irraa ragaaleen walitti qabaman jechaan xiinxalamaniiru. Qorannoon kun akaakuu qorannoo akkamtaa yoo ta’u, malli xiinxala ragaa addeessaa hojirra ooleera. Adeemsi dhamsagaa afaanii afaanitti haala adda addaatiin mul’achuun adeemsa kana xiinxaluuf yaaxxinni maddisiisaa xiinsagaa hojiirra kan oole ta’uyyuu, garagaarummaa ibsi yaaxxinaa afaanirratti qabu qorattuun ibsa mataasiitiin addeessite. Bu’uruma kanaan, argannoon qorannoo akka agrsiisutti adeemsa dhamsagaa irratti jijjiiramni unka jechaafi hariiroon dhamsagootaa jecha ykn daangaa jechootaa irratti nimul’ata. Jechoonni akka gadifi yaa’uu yookiin gadifi deebii akkasumas, gadifi jallaa jedhan dubbachiiftuu /i/ haquun unka [gayyaa?uu (gajjaaʔuu), gaddeebii, ggajjalla (gaʤʤallaa)] jedhamutti jijjiiramu. Dabalataanis, dhamjechi hi’eentaan [hin] jechoota akka nyaate-, waami-, moo’i fi boo’e irratti dabalamuun [hinyaatu (hiɲɲaatu), hiwwaamu, himmoo’u (himmoo?u), himboo’u (himboo?u)] jedhamuun unka jechaa jijjiruun firoommii guutuufi gamisaa nitaasisu. Dhamsagni kokkee lootuun hi’eentaa wajjiin hiriiruun jechoota akka [hinaqu (hinak’u), hineerumu, hinimu, hinokkolu, hinuursu] irratti adeemsa dubbifamaa haquufi dubbachiiftuu funyeessuu raawwata. Dabalataan diigalliifi adeemsi danoomina maqaa Afaan Oromoo adeemsota akka haquu, walbaqachuufi firoommii keessa darbuusaa argannoon qorannichaa nimul’isa. English Abstract The purpose of this study is to analyze the phonological processes which occur at morpheme and/or word boundaries. The phonological process of Afaan Oromoo that exists at lexical level has already been studied by several researchers. However, those which occur at morpheme and/or word boundaries have not been thoroughly analyzed. For this research, the phonological processes which occur at lexical, morphological negation and compounding levels are the focus areas. Data were collected from the native speakers of Afaan Oromoo. The researcher also served as data source as she is a native speaker of the language. The data were collected following a purposive sampling strategy and analyzed thematically based on linguistic procedures. Descriptive method, which employs morpheme-by-morpheme glossing style was applied for the analysis. Although generative phonology is applied as a theory of analysis, the researcher explained language specific features using her own explanation. Accordingly, the findings show phonological changes in structures of words and across morpheme and word boundaries. For example, words with beginning with /j/, /ʤ/, /d/, /ɲ/, /m/ consonants (such as [gajjaa’u, gaʤʤallaa, hiɲɲaati and himmoo?u]) form complete assimilation whereas those beginning with /b/ (such as [himboo?u, himbulu, himbu?u]) form partial assimilation. The glottal fricative phoneme /h/ patterns with the negation particle /hin-/ such as: [hinak’u, hineerumu, hinimu, hinokkolu, hinuursu] cancels the initial consonant of the stem and nasalizes the vowel. Moreover, the study reveals that epenthesis can occur during the phonological processes, such as deletion, affixation, and assimilation. Keywords: Afan Oromo, assimilation, negative marker, prefix, morpheme boundaries