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  2. Culture of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Ethiopia is diverse and generally structured along ethnolinguistic lines. The country's Afro-Asiatic-speaking majority adhere to an amalgamation of traditions that were developed independently and through interaction with neighboring and far away civilizations, including other parts of Northeast Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Italy.

  3. Languages of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    The languages of Ethiopia include the official languages of ... Amharic is considered a holy language by the Rastafari religion and is widely used among its followers ...

  4. Ethiopian studies - Wikipedia

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    Ethiopian studies began a new era in 1963 when the Institute of Ethiopian Studies was founded on the campus of Haile Selassie University (which was later renamed Addis Ababa University). [4] The heart of the IES is the library, containing a wide variety of published and unpublished materials on all types of matters related to Ethiopia and the ...

  5. Religion in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    It is a crime in Ethiopia to incite one religion against another. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church published works by an unknown author written in Ge'ez and translated to Amharic in 1986 which claimed Habesha should refrain from sexual intercourse with Oromo, Muslims, Shanqella, Falasha and animals because it was an abomination. [30]

  6. Argobba people - Wikipedia

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    Argobba language evolved from proto Amharic and Argobba. [40] In other areas, the people have shifted to neighboring languages for economic reasons. At this time there are only a few areas left where the Argobba are not at least bilingual in Amharic, Oromo or Afar .

  7. Ethiopian language area - Wikipedia

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    The Ethiopian language area is a hypothesized linguistic area that was first proposed by Charles A. Ferguson (1970, 1976), who posited a number of phonological and morphosyntactic features that were found widely across Ethiopia and Eritrea, including the Ethio-Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages but not the Nilo-Saharan languages.

  8. Amhara people - Wikipedia

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    Most of the Ethiopian Jewish communities in Ethiopia and Israel speak Amharic. [71] Many followers of the Rastafari movement learn Amharic as a second language, as they consider it to be a sacred language. [72] Amharic is the working language of the federal authorities of the Ethiopian government, and one of the five official languages of Ethiopia.

  9. Harari people - Wikipedia

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    The Harari people speak the 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 and similar to Zay and Silt'e, all of whom are linked to the Harla language. [63] [64] Old Harari already had many Arabic loanwords, proven by the ancient ...