ethnic group group Agaw image caption population region1 flagcountry Ethiopia pop1 ref1 region2 flagcountry Eritrea pop2 ref2 languages Agaw languages Agaw religions Christianity Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Ethiopian Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church Eritrean Catholicism Catholic Paganism Pagan Hebraism Hebraic Beta Israel Judaism Sunni Islam related Afar people Afar Amhara people Amhara Beta Israel Beja people Beja Oromo people Oromo Saho people Saho Somali people Somali Tigray Tigrinya people Tigray Tigre people Tigre The Agaw Ge ez alphabet Ge ez Agaw , modern Agew are an ethnic group in Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea . File Agaw women of Ethiopia.jpg thumb Agaw women holding spindle s for hand spinning yarn. History The Agaw are perhaps first mentioned in the 3rd c. AD Monumentum Adulitanum Aksumite inscription recorded by Cosmas Indicopleustes in the 6th century. The inscription refers to a people called Athagaus or Athagaous , perhaps from Ad Agaw, meaning sons ref Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica A C . Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. pp117 ref of Agaw. ref name Encyclopaedia Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert. Encyclopaedia A C . pp. 142. ref The Athagaous first turn up as one of the peoples conquered by the unknown king who inscribed ... Edinburgh University Press, 1991 , pp. 187 ref Check page, please, Llywrch The Agaw are later mentioned ... Tana a number of Agaw live south of Lake Tana, around Dangila in the Agew Awi Zone of the Amhara Region ... province, along its border with the Tigray Region . The Cushitic speaking Agaw people ruled during the Zagwe ... ez phrase Ze Agaw meaning of Agaw , and refers to the Agaw people. Language The Agaw speak Agaw languages ... branch. Subgroups The Northern Agaw are known as Bilen people Bilen , capital Keren, Eritrea Keren The Western Agaw are known as Qemant , capital Gondar The Eastern Agaw are known as Xamta , capital Soqota The Southern Agaw are known as Awi people Awi , capital Injibara Also included in this ethnic ... more details
Infobox language family altname Central Cushitic name Agaw region Ethiopia and central Eritrea familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Cushitic languages Cushitic child1 Awngi language Awngi child2 Bilin language Bilin child3 Qimant language Qimant child4 Xamtanga language Xamtanga The Central Cushitic , or Agaw , Cushitic languages languages are spoken by small groups in Ethiopia and, in one case, Eritrea . They form the main substratum influence on Amharic language Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages . Classification The Central Cushitic languages are classified as follows after Appleyard Awngi language Awngi South Agaw spoken southwest of Lake Tana , much the largest, with over 350,000 speakers Kunfal dialect Kunfal , spoken west of Lake Tana, is poorly recorded but most likely a dialect of Awngi ref Joswig Mohammed 2011 ref Northern Agaw Blin Xamtanga Blin language Blin North spoken in Eritrea around the town of Keren, Eritrea Keren 70,000 speakers Xamtanga language Xamtanga Central Agaw also called Khamir, Khamta 143,000 speakers in the North Amhara Region Qimant language Qimant Western Agaw nearly extinct, spoken by the Qemant in Semien Gondar Zone dialects Qwara dialect Qwara nearly extinct, spoken by Beta Israel formerly living in Qwara, now in Israel Kayla dialect Kayla extinct, formerly spoken by some Beta Israel , transitional between Qimant and Xamtanga There is a rich literature in Agaw but it is widely dispersed from fascinating mediaeval texts in the Qimant language , now mostly in Israel i museums, to the modern, flourishing and topical in the Bilen language , with its own newspaper, based in Keren, Eritrea Keren , Eritrea . Much historical material is also ... . See also AgawAgaw people Bibliography Appleyard, David L. 2006 A Comparative Dictionary of the Agaw .... Hetzron, Robert 1976 The Agaw Languages. Afroasiatic Linguistics 3,3. p. 31 37 Joswig, Andreas ... Report Revisiting the Southern Agaw Language areas of Ethiopia . SIL International. SIL Electronic ... more details
For other uses Kayla Infobox language name Kayla nativename Kayli a states Ethiopia region Amhara Region , Tigray Region speakers ? familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Cushitic languages Cushitic fam3 Agaw languages Agaw fam4 Northern fam5 Qimant language Qimant Kayla , or Kayli a Ge ez alphabet Ge ez k yl , for the people, Ge ez k yl , Kayla, Amharic language Amharic , and Tigrinya language Tigrinya for the Kayla language is one of two Agaw languages Agaw dialects formerly spoken by a subgroup of the Beta Israel Ethiopia n Jew s . It is a dialect of Qimant language Qimant . The name Kayla is sometimes also used as a cover term for both Beta Israel dialects. It is known only from unpublished notes by Fa tlovich written in the Ge ez alphabet , recently studied by Appleyard. It is preserved by the Beta Israel today. See also Qwara dialect References Ka li a spaced ndash a new Agaw dialect and its implications for Agaw dialectology . In Voice and Power. The Culture of Language in North East Africa. Ed. by R.J. Hayward & I. Lewis. pp. 1 19. London, SOAS. 1996 March . ISBN 0 7286 0257 1. David Appleyard , Preparing a Comparative Agaw Dictionary , in ed. Griefenow Mewis & Voigt, Cushitic & Omotic Languages Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium Berlin, Mar. 17 19, 1994 , R diger K ppe Verlag, K ln 1996. ISBN 3 927620 28 9. Jewish languages Category Central Cushitic languages Category Jews and Judaism in Ethiopia Category Languages of Ethiopia AfroAsiatic lang stub Ethiopia stub Jewish hist stub br Kailigneg he lad Kaylinya pl J zyk kajla ... more details
Agawmeder was a historical state and region in the northwestern part of Ethiopia . It most likely etymology is from Agew Ge ez language Ge ez , Agaw , a people living in the area plus meder land , thus meaning Land of the Agaw . ref Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica A C . Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. pp. 117 ref The western neighbor of Gojjam , its location was where the Agew Awi Zone now lies. History Not much is known about Agawmeder, as much of is existence was marked by Ethiopian isolation from the remainder of the world. ref name Encyclopaedia Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert. Encyclopaedia A C . pp. 142. ref References reflist coord missing Ethiopia Category Geography of Ethiopia Ethiopia geo stub fr Agewmeder he ... more details
Infobox language name Qwara nativename Qware a states Ethiopia region Amhara Region extinct ca. 2000 3,200 L2 speakers familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Cushitic languages Cushitic fam3 Central Cushitic languages Central fam4 Northern fam5 Qimant language Qimant Qwara , or Qware a called Falashan in some older sources , was one of two Agaw languages Agaw dialects , spoken by a subgroup of the Beta Israel Ethiopia n Jew s of the Qwara Province Qwara area. It was a dialect of Qimant language Qimant . The language was on the decline in the early 20th century, as it was being slowly replaced by Amharic language Amharic . During Operation Solomon , most of its remaining speakers were airlifted to Israel , where it continued to lose ground to Hebrew language Hebrew . Several early Falashan manuscripts, using the Ge ez alphabet , exist in more recent times, the language has been recorded by several linguists and travellers, starting with Flad in 1866. See also Kayla dialect References Ka li a spaced ndash a new Agaw dialect and its implications for Agaw dialectology , in Voice and Power The Culture of Language in North East Africa , R.J. Hayward and I. Lewis eds. , pp. 1 19. London SOAS, 1996 March . ISBN 0 7286 0257 1. External links http www.sil.org silesr 2002 031 SILESR2002 031.pdf SIL Sociolinguist report of the Kemant Qimant Language of Ethiopia Jewish languages DEFAULTSORT Qwara Language Category Central Cushitic languages Category Jews and Judaism in Ethiopia Category Languages of Ethiopia AfroAsiatic lang stub Ethiopia stub Jewish hist stub br Kwareg lad Kwara pl J zyk kwara ... more details
Kayla may refer to Kayla , one of the names of the Beta Israel community among their neighbours. Kayla language , an Agaw language of some Beta Israel . Kayla name , a feminine given name. Kayla whale , an orca of SeaWorld Kayla Sharland born 1985 , a New Zealand field hockey player Kayla Bashore born 1983 in South Korea , an American field hockey player Kayla Brady , a fictional character in Days of our Lives , a soap opera Kayla Ewell , American actress in The Bold and the Beautiful , a soap opera disambig ... more details
Academy. 1986 Agaw, Cushitic and Afroasiatic . Journal of Semitic Studies 31,2 195 236. 1987 ... 266 50,3 470 507. 1988 The Agaw languages a comparative morphological perspective. In Taddese Beyene ... in Agaw . Journal of Afroasiatic Languages 3,2 126 150. 1994 A Falasha prayer text in Agaw ... marking, with special reference to Ethiopian Semitic and Agaw. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 71 9 31. 2006 A Comparative Dictionary of the Agaw languages. K ln K ppe Verlag. 2007 Ethiopian Christianity ... more details
Infobox Former Country native name Ze Agaw conventional long name Zagwe dynasty common name Zagwe continent Africa region Horn of Africa country Eritrea , Ethiopia year start 1137 year end 1270 p1 flag p1 s1 flag s1 date start date end event start event end image flag image flag size flag image coat image map Bet Giyorgis church Lalibela 01.jpg image map caption Rock hewn church of Lalibela , symbol of the Zagwe dynasty. national motto national anthem capital Lalibela common languages Agaw languages Agaw government type Monarchy leader1 Mara Takla Haymanot year leader1 early 12th century leader2 Yetbarak year leader2 13th century title leader King legislature stat year1 stat pop1 stat area4 population density3 religion currency The Zagwe dynasty was an historical kingdom in present day Ethiopia . It ruled large parts of the territory from approximately 1137 to 1270 , when the last Zagwe King Za Ilmaknun was killed in battle by the forces of Yekuno Amlak . The name of the dynasty is thought to come from the Ge ez language Ge ez phrase Ze Agaw , meaning Dynasty of the Agaw in reference to the Agaw people that constituted its ruling class. ref name Oliver Roland Oliver, The Cambridge history of Africa From c. 1600 to c. 1790 , Volume 1, Cambridge University Press 1982 , p.112. ref Zagwe s best known King was Gebre Mesqel Lalibela , who is credited with having constructed the rock hewn churches of Lalibela . David Buxton has stated that the area under the direct rule of the Zagwe kings probably embraced the highlands of modern Eritrea and the whole of Tigray province Tigrai , extending southwards to Wag Waag , Lasta and Damot Wollo Wallo province and thence westwards towards Lake Tana Begemder Beghemdir . ref David Buxon, The Abyssinians New York Praeger, 1970 , p. 44 ref Unlike ... of succession was that of brother succeeding brother as king, based on the Agaw laws of inheritance ... of the last king of Aksumite Empire Axum , Dil Na od , putting control of Ethiopia in Agaw hands ... more details
Tatadim was negus of Ethiopia , and a member of the Zagwe dynasty . His name appears in second place in the long lists of the Zagwe kings. ref G.W.B. Huntingford, http www.jstor.org stable 611706 The Wealth of Kings and the End of the Z gu Dynasty , Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , 28 1965 , p. 10 ref Taddesse Tamrat states that he was the oldest known son of Mara Takla Haymanot . ref Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia , Oxford Clarendon Press, 1972 , p. 56n. ref According to the Gadla Yemrehana Krestos , Tatadim made efforts to secure the succession of kingship for his sons, taking actions against his brothers Jan Seyum and Germa Seyum . The Agaw people Agaw law of inheritance dictated that his brothers should be his Hereditary monarchy successors , a problem that plagued the Zagwe kings. ref Taddesse Tamrat, p. 61. ref References Reflist Succession office Emperor of Ethiopia preceded Mara Takla Haymanot succeeded Jan Seyum Category 10th century monarchs in Africa Category Emperors of Ethiopia Category Zagwe dynasty Ethiopia royal stub de Tatadim es Tatadim fr Tatadim he , hu Tatadim sh Tatadim ... more details
Refimprove date March 2009 Shanqella Ge ez alphabet Ge ez n ill sometimes spelled Shangella , Sh nkala , Shankalla or Shangalla is an Ethiopian term originally an Agaw languages Agaw term used to refer to a number of ethnic groups residing primarily in the western most part of Ethiopia from the border of Eritrea to Lake Turkana and who constitute about 5 of Ethiopia s population. The term is used derogatory derogatori ly by highland Ethiopians referring to darker skinned and broader featured Ethiopians, mostly those with a Nilo Saharan languages Nilo Saharan ethnic background, but also a few with Omotic backgrounds. Appearances in Early European Literature Thomas Malthus , An Essay on the Principle of Population , London John Murray, 1826, http www.econlib.org library Malthus malPlong4.html Chapter VIII , 8 polygamy among the Shangalla and 22 premature aging . John Bathurst Deane, Worship of the Serpent , 1833, http www.sacred texts.com etc wos wos10.htm Chapter VII , pp. 427 and 437. Timothy Harley, Moon Lore , 1885, http www.sacred texts.com astro ml ml13.htm Chapter III , pp. 113 114. References Cite EB1911 W1EC 1 wstitle Shangalla http www.africa.upenn.edu eue web abysinia.htm University of Pennsylvania material on Ethiopia taken from Encarta 1994 reflist Category Ethnic groups in Ethiopia Category Exonyms he ... more details
Kara language may refer to Kara language Papua New Guinea , an Austronesian language spoken by people in the Kavieng District, Papua New Guinea Kara language Tanzania , a Bantu language spoken by the Kara people of Tanzania Kara language Korea , a language of the Gaya confederacy in southern Korea Kara language or Tar Gula language , a language spoken by people in the Central African Republic Kara language or Fer language , a language spoken by people in the Central African Republic See also Kara languages Karo language , spoken in the South Omo region of Ethiopia Qwara language , a western Agaw dialect spoken in Ethiopia Kara disambiguation disambig ... more details
The Awi people are an ethnic group in Ethiopia , and are grouped as one of the Agaw people. The Awis live in Agew Awi Zone in Central Gojjam, and have a few communities in the Metekel Zone of the Benishangul Gumuz Region . Population The 2007 census lists 631,565 ethnic Awis, or 0.85 of the total population 63,415 are urban inhabitants. ref http www.csa.gov.et pdf Cen2007 firstdraft.pdf Census 2007 , first draft, Table 5 ref The Awi Zone, according to the Central Statistical Agency , had roughly 990,000 inhabitants in 2005. Others living in that Zone are predominantly Amhara people Amharas . Language The Awis speak Awngi language Awngi , a Central Cushitic language. References reflist External links http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code awn Category Ethnic groups in Ethiopia Ethiopia stub eo A ioj ... more details
1896 Ang Pagsilang 1896 The Reborn is collaboration album released on 1996 by Sony BMG Records Philippines Formerly BMG Records Pilipinas, Inc. .This album commemorates the historical 1896 uprising of Filipinos against the Spanish colonizers. The uprising was repelled, but the event is highly significant in Philippine history. Track listing Hanggang Ngayon by Siglo Various Artists Century Egg by The Youth band The Youth Askal by Yano Ating Bayani by Alamid rock band Alamid 1996 Bayani Ka by Grace Nono Nais Ko by Agaw Agimat Casa Fantastica by Eraserheads 1 800 Ninety Six by Francis Magalona Malaya by Wency Cornejo MDCCCXCVI by Color It Red Siesyatnebonsotneicostolim Awa by Sugar Hiccup Panahon Na Naman by Rivermaya Halo halong Digmaan by Himigsikan Various Artists Category 1996 compilation albums ... more details
, another Southern Agaw language spoken in the area west of Lake Tana , has been suspected to be a separate ... phoneme. ref Hetzron, R. 1969 The Verbal System of Southern Agaw. University of California ... affixation. References reflist 2 Bibliography Appleyard, David L. 1996 Ka li a A New Agaw Dialect and Its Implications for Agaw Dialectology , in African Languages and Cultures. Supplement , No. 3, Voice ..., pp. 1 19. Appleyard, David L. 2006 A Comparative Dictionary of the Agaw Languages Kuschitische ..., Robert . 1969 The Verbal System of Southern Agaw . Berkeley & Los Angeles University of California Press. Hetzron, Robert 1976 The Agaw Languages , in Afroasiatic Linguistics 3 3. Hetzron, Robert 1978 The Nominal System of Awngi Southern Agaw , in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ... Press. Hetzron, Robert 1997 Awngi Agaw Phonology , in Phonologies of Asia and Africa, Volume 1 . Ed ... Revisiting the Southern Agaw Language areas of Ethiopia . SIL International. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2011 047. Palmer, Frank R. 1959 The Verb Classes of Agaw Awiya Mitteilungen des Instituts f r ... des dialectes agaw , in Cahiers de l Afrique et de l Asie 5, pp. 297 306. Ethnologue information ... more details
infobox ethnic group group Bilen image caption poptime 100,000 popplace region1 flagcountry Eritrea pop1 100,000 ref1 langs Blin language Blin rels Christianity Roman Catholic or Eritrean Orthodox , Islam related Afar people Afar Agaw Amhara people Amhara Beja people Beja Oromo people Oromo Saho people Saho Somali people Somali Tigray Tigrinya people Tigray Tigre people Tigre The Bilen , Blin or Bilin , also known as the Bogo or North Agaw people Agaw , ref name Minahan are an ethnic group in the Horn of Africa . They are primarily concentrated in central Eritrea , in and around the city of Keren, Eritrea Keren , and south toward Asmara , the nation s capital. Overview Some of the Bilen entered Eritrea from Ethiopia during the 16th century. ref Niaz Murtaza, The Pillage of Sustainability in Eritrea, 1600s 1990s Rural Communities and the Creeping Shadows of Hegemony , Greenwood Publishing Group 1998 , p.45 ref Primarily agriculturalist s, they number about 96,000 and represent around 2.1 of Eritrea s population. ref http www.state.gov r pa ei bgn 2854.htm U.S. Department of State Background Note Eritrea ref Religion The Bilen practice both Christianity and Islam. Muslim adherents mainly inhabit rural areas and have interbred with the adjacent Tigre people Tigre , while Christian Bilen tend to reside in urban areas and have intermingled with the Biher Tigrinya. ref name Minahan James Minahan, Miniature empires a historical dictionary of the newly independent states , Greenwood Publishing Group 1998 , pp.77 78. ref Language The Bilen speak Blin language Blin as a mother tongue, which belongs to the Cushitic languages Cushitic branch of the Afro Asiatic languages Afro Asiatic language family. Many also speak other Afro Asiatic languages such as Tigre language Tigre and Tigrinya language Tigrinya . In addition, younger Bilen often employ Arabic language Arabic words and expressions in their everyday speech. ref name Minahan Notes reflist DEFAULTSORT Bilen People Category ... more details
Afro Asiatic communities, including the Agaw Awi, Oromo people Oromo , Agaw people Agaw Kamyr and Argobba ... 91.48 align left Agaw people Agaw Awi 2.7 3.46 align left Oromo people Oromo 3 2.62 align left Agaw people Agaw Kamyr 1 1.39 align left Argobba people Argobba 0.41 align left Qemant 1.2 Religion class ... more details
Wag Hemra is a Zone in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia . Its name is a combination of the former province of Wag , and the dominant local ethnic group, the Kamyr or Hemra Agaw . ref Sarah Vaughan, http www.ihasa.org documents special reports ethnicity in ethiopia.pdf Ethnicity and Power in Ethiopia University of Edinburgh Ph.D. Thesis, 2003 , pp. 239ff ref Wag Hemra is bordered on the south by Semien Wollo Zone Semien Wollo , on the southwest by Debub Gondar Zone Debub South Gondar , on the west by Semen Gondar Zone Semen North Gondar , on the north and east by the Tigray Region . Towns in Wag Hemra include Soqota . Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency Ethiopia Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia CSA , this Zone has a total population of 426,213, an increase of 54.64 over the 1994 census, of whom 213,845 are men and 212,368 women. With an area of 9,039.04 square kilometers, Wag Hemra has a population density of 47.15 29,951 or 7.03 are urban inhabitants. A total of 102,098 households were counted in this Zone, which results in an average of 4.17 persons to a household, and 98,222 housing units. ref http www.csa.gov.et index.php?option com rubberdoc&view doc&id 266&format raw&Itemid 521 Census 2007 Tables Amhara Region , Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4. ref The 1994 national census reported a total population for this Zone of 275,615 in 70,474 households, of whom 139,301 were men and 136,314 women 11,643 or 4.22 of its population were urban dwellers at the time. The three largest ethnic groups reported in Wag Hemra were the Agaw Kamyr Agaw 51.24 , the Amhara people Amhara 47.18 , and the Tigray Tigrinya people Tigrayan 1.5 all other ethnic groups made up 0.08 of the population. Amharic language Amharic was spoken as a first language by 50.92 , 46.85 spoke Kamyr language Kamyr , and 2.19 spoke Tigrinya language Tigrinya the remaining 0.04 spoke all other primary languages reported. 99.6 practiced Ethiopian Orthodox ... more details
suggested that it might have been either an Agaw languages Agaw language or a non Amharic Semitic language , while Dimmendaal 1989 says it probably belonged to Cushitic as does Agaw , and Gamst 1965 says ... to Agaw. References Lionel Bender linguist Bender, M. L. , J. D. Bowen, C. A. Cooper, and C. A. Ferguson ... more details
Other uses Kayla is one of the names of the Beta Israel community among their neighbours, after which the Kayla language is named. ref name Rosen Haim Rosen, PDF 1 http jic.tau.ac.il moreshet reshuma.asp?key 1000106 , ? Falasha, Kayla or Beta Israel? Ethnographic remarks on the nicknames of Ethiopian Jewry , published at Pa amim 22, 1985, pp. 53 58, at http jic.tau.ac.il en.asp JIC project Jews of Islamic Countries Archiving Project , Tel Aviv University . ref Yona Bogale claimed that the name stems from the Tigrinya language Tigrinya word for artisan s, and on the broader sense Excommunication excommunicated people as Yeshaq I of Ethiopia has denied the right of inheritance of all non Christian s . ref name Rosen ref name Encyc553 Steven Kaplan, Bet sra el , in Siegbert von Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica A C Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003 , p. 553. ref Speakers of Agaw languages , such as Qemant citizens, told researchers that Kayla means one who has not crossed the stream or he or they that have not crossed . ref name Rosen This refers to the observance of Shabbat rules among Ethiopian Jews , necessitating the avoidance of activities prohibited on Shabbat . ref name Rosen The name Kayla means pure in Greek. References reflist Category Beta Israel ... more details
about the woreda Dembiya woreda the lake sometimes also known as Dembiya Lake Tana Dembiya Ge ez alphabet Ge ez demb y also transliterated Dembea, Dambya, Dembya, Dambiya, etc. is a historic region of Ethiopia , intimately linked with Lake Tana . According to the account of Manuel de Almeida , Dembiya was bounded on East by Begemder , on South by Gojjam , on West by Agaw s of Achefer and Tangha. Lake Tana Lake Tsana , formerly called Dambaya, is in this region. ref Quoted in Herbert Weld Blundell H. Weld Blundell , The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769 1840 , Cambridge University Press, 1922 , p. 538 ref Alexander Murray linguist Alexander Murray , in his preface to the third volume of James Bruce Bruce s account, further describes it as on the east it includes Fogera Foggora , Dera woreda Dara , and Alata on the north east Gondar , the metropolis, and the rich district beneath it on the southwest, the district of Bed the plain barren country and, on the west, the lands around Waindaga and Dengel Ber Dingleber . ref Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile , 1805 edition , vol. 3 p. 9 ref Dembiya was incorporated into the Begemder province which previously only included lands to the east of Lake Tana during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie , and in 1996 became a Dembiya woreda woreda of the Amhara Region . References Reflist Coord missing Ethiopia Category Geography of Ethiopia Category Amhara Region Amhara geo stub Ethiopia hist stub fr Dambya he ... more details
Infobox language name Qimant nativename Kemantney states Ethiopia region Amhara Region speakers 1,650 out of an ethnic population of 172,000 date 1994 date census familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Cushitic languages Cushitic fam3 Agaw languages Agaw dia1 Qwara language Qwara dia2 Kayla language Kayla fam4 Northern iso3 ahg notice IPA The Qimant language is a highly endangered language spoken by a small and elderly fraction of the Qemant people in Northern Ethiopia mainly in Chilga Woreda in Semien Gondar Zone between Gondar and Metemma . Classification The language belongs to the western subsection of the Agaw or Central Cushitic languages . ref Zelealem 2003, p. 30 ref Other extinct members of this subsection are Qwara language Qwara and Kayla language Kayla . With all other Cushitic languages Qimant belongs to the Phylum linguistics phylum of the Afro Asiatic languages . Geographic distribution and sociolinguistic situation Qimant is the original language of the Qemant people of Semien Gondar Zone and Ethiopia . Although the ethnic population of the Qemant was 172,327 at the 1994 census, only a very small fraction of these speak the language nowadays. All speakers live either in Chilga woreda or in Lay Armachiho woreda. ref see map in Zelealem 2003, p. 31 ref The number of first language speakers is 1625, the number of second language speakers 3450. ref Zelealem 2003, p. 62 ref All speakers of the language are older than 30 years, and more than 75 are older than 50 years. ref Zelealem 2003, p. 63 ref The language is no longer passed on to the next generation of speakers. Most ethnic Qemant people speak Amharic language Amharic . Qimant is not spoken in public or even at house as a means of day communication any more, but is reduced to a secret code. ref Zelealem 2003, p. 75 ref Dialects Varieties It is not clear to what extent Kayla language Kayla , Qwara language Qwara and Qimant have been dialects of the same Western Agaw language, or were languages distinct f ... more details
Dehana is one of the 105 woreda s in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia . It is named for one of the five clans of the Agaw . ref According to the list provided by James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile 1805 edition , vol. 3, p. 330 ref Part of the Wag Hemra Zone , Dehana is bordered on the south by the Semien Wollo Zone Semien North Wollo Zone , on the southwest by the Debub Gondar Zone Debub South Gondar Zone , on the northwest by the Semien Gondar Zone Semien North Gondar Zone , on the north by Zikuala , and on the east by Soqota woreda Soqota . The major town in Dehana is Amde Werq . Rivers in this woreda include the Tekez River Tekez . The Battle of Qwila , where Wagshum Gobeze defeated and killed his rival Tiso Gobeze in late 1867, was fought in this woreda. Demographics Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency Ethiopia Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia CSA , this woreda has a total population of 109,725, an increase of 13.67 over the 1994 census, of whom 54,658 are men and 55,067 women 4,207 or 3.83 are urban inhabitants. With an area of 1,643.07 square kilometers, Dehana has a population density of 66.78, which is greater than the Zone average of 47.15 persons per square kilometer. A total of 26,436 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.15 persons to a household, and 25,520 housing units. ref http www.csa.gov.et index.php?option com rubberdoc&view doc&id 266&format raw&Itemid 521 Census 2007 Tables Amhara Region , Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4. ref The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 96,526 in 23,987 households, of whom 48,613 were men and 47,913 were women 2,084 or 2.16 of its population were urban dwellers. The two largest ethnic groups reported in Soqota were the Amhara people Amhara 98.74 , and the Agaw Kamyr 1.11 all other ethnic groups made up 0.15 of the population. Amharic language Amharic was spoken as a first language ... more details
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