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Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically employed to refer to Semitic-speaking and predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian peoples found in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea between Asmara and Addis Ababa (i.e. the modern-day Amhara, Tigrayan, Tigrinya ...
The Amhara speak "Amharic" ("Amarigna", "Amarinya") as their mother tongue. Its native speakers account for 29.3% of the Ethiopian population. [69] It belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and is the largest member of the Ethiopian Semitic group. [70]
of the Working People of Ethiopia: Sun [1] Addis Ababa: 1996 G.D Pub. House Ṭobiyā [1] Addis Ababa: 1993 ʼAkpāk Amharic Voice of Ethiopia [1] Addis Ababa: 1961–1969 National Patriotic Association Yäsäffiw hezb dems: 1974 Ye'Zareyitu Ethiopia / L'Ethiope d'Aujourd'hui [8] Addis Ababa: 1952 Amharic, French Yeroo: 1999–2000, 2018 ...
Addis Zemen (አዲስ ዘመን; "New Era" in English) [1] is an Ethiopian Amharic newspaper published by the federal government's Ethiopian Press Agency, [2] which also publishes the English-language Ethiopian Herald.
Abyssinia (/ æ b ɪ ˈ s ɪ n i ə /; [1] also known as Abyssinie, Abissinia, Habessinien, or Al-Habash) was an ancient region in the Horn of Africa situated in the northern highlands of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. [2]
The Persecution of Amhara people [8] is the ongoing persecution of the Amhara and Agew people of Ethiopia.Since the early 1990s, the Amhara people have been subject to ethnic violence, including massacres by Tigrayan, Oromo and Gumuz ethnic groups among others, which some have characterized as a genocide.
With 57,500,000 total speakers as of 2019, including around 25,100,000 second language speakers, Amharic is the most widely spoken of the group, the most widely spoken language of Ethiopia and second-most widely spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic. [3] [4] Tigrinya has 7 million speakers and is the most widely spoken language in ...
The Oromo conflict or Oromia conflict is a protracted conflict between the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ethiopian government. [17] [18] The Oromo Liberation Front formed to fight the Ethiopian Empire to liberate the Oromo people and establish an independent state of Oromia.