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    was subdued. The Gurage languages are a subgroup of the Ethiopian Semitic languages within the Semitic family of the Afroasiatic language family. They have...
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    Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic Sidamo, Afar, Hadiyya and Agaw languages, as well as the Semitic Gurage languages...
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  • Soddo–Mesqan–Gurage Soddo Mesqan–Gurage Mesqan Gurage Muher Chaha–Inor Silt'e–Zay–Harari Harari Silt'e, Zay Argobba–Amharic "Languages of Sudan". Ethnologue...
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  • Ennemor, is an Afroasiatic language spoken in central Ethiopia. One of the Gurage languages, it is mainly spoken within the Gurage Zone in the Southern Nations...
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  • houses") is an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia. One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several...
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  • it) is a Gurage language spoken by a quarter million people in southeastern Ethiopia. It is an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily...
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    Harari–East Gurage Harari East Gurage Silt'e Zway Outer South Ethiopic n-group Gafat (extinct) Soddo tt-group Mesmes (extinct) Muher West Gurage Mesqan Sebat...
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  • The Mesmes language is an extinct West Gurage language, one of the Ethiopian Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia. There are still many people who claim...
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  • Afroasiatic language of the Semitic branch spoken in Ethiopia. It is one of the Gurage languages in the Ethiopian Semitic group. The Zay language has around...
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    subset of the Gurage and speak the Soddo Gurage language or Kistanigna (ክስታንኛ). They primarily inhabit the Soddo (woreda) in the Gurage Zone, but large...
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  • Chaha and Amharic: ቸሃ čehā or čexā) is a Gurage language spoken in central Ethiopia, mainly within the Gurage Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities...
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    spoken as a first language by 89.47%, 7.32% Amharic, and 1.16% spoke Sebat Bet Gurage; the remaining 2.05% spoke all other primary languages reported. The...
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  • Region (SNNPR). The closely related Libido language, located just to the north in the Mareko district of Gurage Zone, is very similar lexically, but has...
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  • A.J. (1997). "The story of Joseph in Sïltʼi Gurage", in: Grover Hudson (ed.), Essays on Gurage language and culture: dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the...
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  • Ethiopian Semitic language belonging to the Gurage group. It is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene in Ethiopia. The language has two dialects...
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    characterized as foreign invaders. Amharic is a South Ethio-Semitic language, along with Gurage, Argobba, Harari, and others. Due to the social stratification...
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    Harari people (category Articles containing Harari-language text)
    Harari language, an Ethiosemitic language referred to as Gey Sinan or Gēy Ritma ("Language of the City"). It is closely related to the eastern Gurage languages...
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    Geʽez script (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    It has also been used to write Sebat Bet and other Gurage languages and at least 20 other languages of Ethiopia. In Eritrea it has traditionally been used...
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    Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (category Articles containing Amharic-language text)
    formerly the only official language). The 1994 census reported that the predominantly spoken languages include Sidamo (18%), Gurage (14.72%), Welayta (11.53%)...
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    Dawro Zone, on the west by the Omo River which separates it from Oromia Region and the Yem Special Woreda, on the north by Gurage, on the northeast by...
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  • the south by Soro, on the west by the Omo River which separates it from the Yem special woreda, on the north by the Gurage Zone, and on the east by Limo...
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  • Ethiopia. Part of the Gurage Zone, Meskanena Mareko was bordered on the south by Silte, on the southwest by Gumer, on the west by Ezhana Wolene, on the...
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  • Mesqan (also Mäsqan or Meskan) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Gurage people in the Gurage Zone of Ethiopia. It belongs to the family's Ethiopian...
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    Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic Sidamo, Afar, Hadiyya and Agaw languages, as well as the Semitic Gurage languages...
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    Ethiopians (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
    or 2.2%; Gurage 1,481,783 or 2%; and Afar 1,281,278 or 1.7%. Widely-spoken foreign languages include Arabic, English (major foreign language taught in...
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    Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples (category Semitic languages)
    branch of Afroasiatic. Blench even wonders whether the highly divergent Gurage languages indicate an origin in Eritrea/Ethiopia (with the rest of Ethiopic/Eritreran...
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    Goliath Tabuni (category West Papuan independence activists)
    against Indonesian government units. Tabuni was born in 1959 or 1960 in Gurage, Netherlands New Guinea (today Puncak Jaya Regency). He reportedly joined...
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  • Habesha peoples (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    Semitic languages as the Abyssinian languages. They are mainly spoken by the Amhara, the Tigrayans, the Tigre, the Gurage, the Argobba and the Harari people...
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  • related to the Eastern Gurage languages, Zay, and Silt'e, all of whom are believed to be linked to the now extinct Semitic Harla language. Locals or natives...
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  • Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after the Soddo Gurage people. It is Part of the Gurage Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's...
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