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The Suri are an agro-pastoral people and inhabit part of the South western Ethiopia of West Omo Zone Suri woreda in Ethiopia,while the other groups live partly in neighbouring South Sudan. [3] The Suri population was 20,622 in 1998 (census est.) [3] and ca. 32,000 in 2016. The Suri are culturally similarly related to the Mursi. [4]
It is named for Suri people, whose homeland lies largely in this woreda. Suri woreda is bordered on the south and west by South Sudan, on the northwest by the Gambela Region dimma woreda , on the north by Bero woreda, on the east by Maji woreda and on the southern part with the new pastoral zone south omo Nyagatom woreda .
Suri (Churi, Dhuri, Shuri, Shuro), is a Surmic language spoken in the West Omo Zone of the South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region in Ethiopia, to the South Sudan border by the Suri. The language has over 80% lexical similarity to Mursi . [ 3 ]
West Omo or Mirab Omo is a Zone in the Ethiopian South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region. [1] West Omo is located at Ethiopia’s southern margin, where Maji and Surma woredas are bordering Kenya, encompassing the area to the west of the Omo River. The area is dominantly inhabited by the Dizi, Suri and Me'enit communities. [2]
The Baale language, Baleesi or Baalesi is a Surmic language spoken by the Baale or Zilmamo people of Ethiopia, and by the Kachepo of South Sudan. [2] It is a member of the southwest branch of the Surmic cluster; [3] the self-name of the language and the community is Suri, which is the same as that of the Suri language, [4] evoking an ethnonym that embraces the Tirma, Chai (or T'id), and Baale ...
Suri (name) Sur (Pashtun tribe) or Suri, a Pashtun tribe; Suri (Ethiopia) or Surma people Suri language, a Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic language spoken by Suri people; Suri (Khukhrain), one of the ten clans of the Khukhrain
The most complete descriptions of Ethiopian Surmic languages are of Murle (Arensen 1982) and Tirma (Bryant 1999). An overview of linguistic and anthropological research on Surmic is the book edited by Dimmendaal (1998), especially the bibliography article (Abbink and Unseth 1998).
Mursi is closely related (over 80% cognate) to Me'en, Suri, Kwegu, and tribes in South Sudan such as Murle, Didinga, Tennet and Boya. According to the 1994 national census, there were 3,163 people who were identified as Mursi in the SNNPR; 3,158 spoke Mursi as their first language, while 31 spoke it as their second language. [ 7 ]