Ethnic group image group Qemant poptime Est. 172,000 in 1994 of whom only 1,650 retain the language. popplace Ethiopia langs Qimant language Qimant an Central Cushitic languages Agaw language Amharic, Tigrinya rels Pagan Hebraic related Agaw , Beta Israel incl. http web.archive.org web 20060501230058 http www.nacoej.org falas.htm Falash Mura , Qwara language Qwara , Amhara people Amhara , Tigray Tigrinya people Tigrays , Jew s The Qemant are a small ethnic group in Ethiopia , who, despite their close historical and ethnic relationship, should not be confused with the Beta Israel . The ethnicity ... Amhara and Tigray Tigrinya people Tigray , which they see as a desirable goal. The Qemant live ... . They are mainly farmers. The Qemant are divided into two patrilineal Kinship Lineages, clans, phratries .... 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 ... survey notes that the Qemant religion is in a very precarious situation since very few people still adhere to it. According to this study, the ratio of those who follow the Qemant religion vs. those ... to which other prohibitions, as are found in Judaism , are observed, is unclear. The Qemant call ... leader among the Qemant is their High Priest, called the Wember also transliterated Womber ... moiety. Each Qemant locality has at least one of each they must work together to conduct ... have a subordinate judicial function. ref name Gamst 62 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 ... the Qemant boudas , or sorcerers, along with the Falashas or Jews Beta Israel , most Mussulamns Muslim ... historians, the Qemant were descended from Canaan through his son Arwadi the Arvadite and grandson ... and references 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
the Bilen people Bilen in and around Keren, Eritrea Keren in Eritrea the Qemant and the Qwara , who ... Keren The Western Agaw are known as Qemant , capital Gondar The Eastern Agaw are known as Xamta ... 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 References reflist Category Beta Israel he ... more details
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 . Infobox Language name Qimant nativename Kemantney familycolor Afro Asiatic states Ethiopia region Amhara Region speakers 1650 1994 Census fam1 Afro Asiatic languages Afro Asiatic fam2 Cushitic languages Cushitic fam3 Central Cushitic languages Central fam4 Western iso1 none iso2b cus iso3 ahg 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 Sociolinguistics 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 from each other. Phonology ... 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
Infobox Language family name Central Cushitic altname Agaw region Ethiopia and central Eritrea familycolor Afro Asiatic fam1 Afro Asiatic languages 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 Southern Awngi language Awngi spoken southwest of Lake Tana , much the largest, with over 350,000 speakers Kunfal language Kunfal poorly recorded , spoken west of Lake Tana. Most likely a dialect of Awngi. Northern Agaw North Central Northern Blin language Blin spoken in Eritrea around the town of Keren, Eritrea Keren 70,000 speakers Central Xamtanga language Xamtanga also called Khamir, Khamta 143,000 speakers in the North Amhara Region Western Qimant language Qimant nearly extinct, spoken by the Qemant in Semien Gondar Zone . Qwara language Qwara nearly extinct, spoken by Beta Israel formerly living in Qwara, now in Israel Transitional between Western and Central Kayla language Kayla extinct, formerly spoken by some Beta Israel 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 . 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 Verlag. Hetzron, Robert 19 ... 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
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 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 reported. 95.3 ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Beta Israel br lang he image File Shlomo Molla.jpg Shlomo Molla 77px File Abatte.jpg Abatte Barihun 77px caption small Shlomo Molla , Abatte Barihun small poptime 125,000 130,000 regions Flag Israel 120,000 ref name The Ethiopian Population In Israel Israel Central Bureau of Statistics http www.cbs.gov.il hodaot2009n 11 09 252b.pdf The Ethiopian Population In Israel ref 2008 br 1.75 of the Israelis Israeli population br Central District Israel Central 35.6 Southern District Israel South 25 Haifa District Haifa 18.8 North District Israel North 9 Jerusalem District Jerusalem 6.1 Tel Aviv District Tel Aviv 3.6 Judea and Samaria Area 1.6 what are these statistics supposed to be? they can t possibly be right if they are supposed to be ethiopian population by district... Citation needed date March 2011 region1 Flag Ethiopia pop1 3,188 8,700 ref1 ref State Comptroller of Israel http www.iaej.co.il newsite Data UploadedFiles SitePages 917 sFileRedir.pdf Efrati Census ref region2 Flag United States pop2 1,000 ref2 ref cite web last Mozgovaya first Natasha url http www.haaretz.com hasen spages 1077094.html title Focus U.S.A. Israel News Haaretz Israeli News source publisher Haaretz.com date 2008 04 02 accessdate 2010 12 25 ref languages table style background none tr td style line height 1.4em Historical Jewish languages br Agaw languages Agaw Kayla language Kayla Qwara language Qwara tr td style line height 1.4em Liturgical language s br Ge ez language Ge ez tr td style line height 1.4em Predominant spoken language s br Amharic language Amharic 80 Tigrinya language Tigrinya 20 Hebrew language Hebrew tr table religions Judaism related Jews and Judaism in Africa African Jews other Jewish ethnic divisions Jewish groups br Amhara people Amhara Tigray Tigrinya people Tigrinya Agaw other Habesha people Beta Israel lang he n Beyte beyt Israel , Ge ez language Ge ez B ta Isr l , modern B te Isr l , Encyclopaedia aet ... more details
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