Ethnic group image group Qemant br poptime Est. 172,000 in 1994 of whom only 1,650 retain the language. popplace Flag Ethiopia langs Qimant language Qimant Amharic language Amharic Tigrinya language Tigrinya rels Pagan Hebraic related Beta Israel other Jewish ethnic divisions Jewish groups br Agaw Amhara people Amhara Tigray Tigrinya people Tigrinya other Habesha people Habeshas The Qemant Lang ... Tigray , which they see as a desirable goal. The Qemant live along an axis stretching from Ayikel ... of the language are near Ayikel, about 40 miles west of Gondar . They are mainly farmers. The Qemant ... moieties , the Keber and the Yetanti the Keber is higher in rank. A traditional Qemant can only marry a member of the other moiety, so, while the moieties are exogamous, Qemant society as a whole is endogamous. ref Gamst 1969 , p.67 ref Religion The Qemant traditionally practiced a religion which ... change of the past two millennia . A recent sociolinguistic survey notes that the Qemant religion ..., the ratio of those who follow the Qemant religion vs. those who are baptized and converted to Ethiopian ... in Judaism , are observed, is unclear. The Qemant call the Deity Adara God or Yeadara My God or Mezgana .... ref Gamst 1969 pp. 34&ndash 37 ref The highest political and religious leader among the Qemant is their High ..., of the Keber moiety, and the abayegariya , the lower, of the Yetanti moiety. Each Qemant locality .... ref name Gamst 62 The Qemant don t consider themselves as Jews . ref Olivier Tourny, http portal.svt.ntnu.no ... of Ethiopian Studies, Vol. 4, p. 1225 1233 ref History The origins of the Qemant are unknown, for they lack a written history. According to oral tradition, the founder of the Qemant was a man ... to the early 19th century missionary Samuel Gobat , their Amharic speaking neighbors considered the Qemant ..., the Qemant were descended from Canaan through his son Arwadi the Arvadite and grandson Ayner ... Notes reflist 2 References Gamst, Frederic C. 1969 The Qemant. A Pagan Hebraic Peasantry ... more details
Adara may refer to Adara East Timor , a town on Atauro Island , East Timor Adara deity , the Qemant name for the Deity Epsilon Canis Majoris , a star Blue Lantern Corps Adara comics disambig de Adara ... more details
people Bilen in and around Keren, Eritrea Keren in Eritrea the Qemant and the Qwara , who live around ... The Western Agaw are known as Qemant , capital Gondar The Eastern Agaw are known as Xamta , capital ... grouping are the Beta Israel , who formerly lived in the northern Amhara region with the Qemant ... 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
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
2007 Tables Amhara Region , Tables 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.4. ref The Qemant , one of the Agaw ... reported in Lay Armachiho were the Qemant 63.89 , and the Amhara people Amhara 35.76 all other ... more details
people are the predominant ethnic group in this woreda, the Qemant , one of the Agaw people ... people Amhara 68.65 , and the Qemant 30.77 all other ethnic groups made up 0.51 of the population. Amharic language Amharic was spoken as a first language by 99 , and Qimant language Qemant by 0.83 ... 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 available in the Xamtanga language , and there is a deep tradition of folklore in the Awngi language . See also Agaw Agaw people Bibliography Appleyard, David L. 2006 A Comparative Dictionary of the Agaw Languages Kuschitische Sprachstudien Cushitic Language Studies Band 24 . K ln R diger K ppe Ve ... more details
Semien Gondar or North Gondar is a Zone in the Ethiopia n Amhara Region . This Zone is named for the city of Gondar , the capital of Ethiopia until the mid 19th century, which has often been used as a name for the 20th century province of Begemder . Semien Gondar is bordered on the south by Lake Tana , Mirab Gojjam Zone Mirab West Gojjam and the Benishangul Gumuz Region, on the west by Sudan , on the north by the Tigray Region , on the east by Wag Hemra Zone Wag Hemra and on the southeast by Debub Gondar Zone Debub Gondar . Towns and cities in Semien Gondar include Dabat , Debarq , Emfranz , Gondar, Gorgora and Metemma . 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 2,929,628, an increase of 40.26 over the 1994 census, of whom 1,486,040 are men and 1,443,588 women with an area of 45,944.63 square kilometers, Semien Gondar has a population density of 63.76. While 462,700 or 15.79 are urban inhabitants, a further 2,148 or 0.07 are pastoralists. A total of 654,803 households were counted in this Zone, which results in an average of 4.47 persons to a household, and 631,509 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 2,088,684 in 434,297 households, of whom 1,059,698 were men and 1,028,986 women 236,625 or 11.33 of its population were urban dwellers at the time. The three largest ethnic groups reported in Semien Gondar were the Amhara people Amhara 89.72 , the Qemant 8.25 , and the Tigray Tigrinya people Tigrayan 0.94 all other ethnic groups made up 1.09 of the population. Amharic language Amharic was spoken as a first language by 98.24 , and 0.81 spoke Tigrinya language Tigrinya the remaining 0.95 spoke all other primary languages report ... more details
Canaan , according to the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible , was a son of Ham son of Noah Ham and grandson of Noah , and was the father of the Canaan ites. He was the recipient of the so called Curse of Ham . Genesis narrative Descendants of Canaan According to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 verses 15 19 , Canaan was the ancestor of the tribes who originally occupied the ancient Land of Canaan all the territory from Sidon The Biblical Sidon Sidon or Hamath in the north to Gaza in the southwest and Lasha in the southeast. This territory is roughly the areas of modern day Israel , Palestine , Lebanon , western Jordan , and western Syria . Canaan s firstborn son was Sidon, son of Canaan Sidon , who shares his name with the Phoenicia n city of Sidon in present day Lebanon. ref Mar a E. Aubet. The Phoenicians and the West politics, colonies and trade , ISBN 0521795435, 9780521795432 , 2001, p. 66 ref His second son was Heth, son of Canaan Heth . Canaan s descendants, according to the Hebrew Bible, include Sidon ians, i.e. Phoenicia ns ref James C. Prichard. Researches into the physical history of mankind , 1817, p. 447 ref ref But see also Harvard University. The Canadian journal of science, literature and history , Vol. 13, p. 533 ref Biblical Hittites Hittites , children of Heth Jebusite s Amorite s Girgashite s Hivite s Arkite s Sinites Bible Sinites Arvadite s Zemarite s Hamathite s According to traditional Ethiopia n histories, Canaan s son Arwadi the Arvadite and his wife Entela crossed from Asia into Ethiopia in ca. 2100 BC, and the Qemant tribe were said to be descended from their son, Anayer . There is further an Ethiopian tradition that two other Canaanite tribes, viz. the Sinites and Zemarites, also entered Ethiopia at the time it was ruled by the Kingdom of Kush , and became the Shanqella and Weyto people s, respectively. ref Yohannes Wolde Mariam, Yealem Tarik , 1948 p. 105 6. ref The Persian historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al Tabari c. 915 recounted a t ... more details
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