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Kambaata is a Highland East Cushitic language, part of the larger Afro-Asiatic family and spoken by the Kambaata people. Closely related varieties are Xambaaro (T'ambaaro, Timbaaro), Alaba, and Qabeena (K'abeena), [ 3 ] of which the latter two are sometimes divided as a separate Alaba language .
Traditional dressing and dancing of Kambaata culture. According to Ethiopian statistics, the population of the Kambaata people was 5, 627,565, [3] of which 90.89% live in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region. Almost one in five – 18.5% – live in urban areas. [4] The Kambaata people speak the Kambaata language, a Cushitic ...
[10] [11] It also serves as a language of instruction in Djibouti, [12] and as the working language of the Somali Region in Ethiopia. [ 9 ] Beja, Afar, Blin and Saho , the languages of the Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic that are spoken in Eritrea , are languages of instruction in the Eritrean elementary school curriculum. [ 13 ]
Kambaata mother with her children in front of their tukul close to the town of Hadero (Kembata Tembaro Zone). Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this Zone has a total population of 680,837, of whom 336,676 are men and 344,161 women; with an area of 1,355.89 square kilometers, Kembata has a population density of 502.13.
The nomadic Medjay and the Blemmyes—the latter a section of the historical descendant of the former—are believed by many historians to be ancestors of modern-day speakers of Beja; there appears to be linguistic continuity, suggesting that a language ancestral to Beja was spoken in the Nile Valley by the time of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. [4]
Amharic was the language of primary school instruction, but has been replaced in many areas by regional languages such as Oromo, Somali or Tigrinya. [16] While all languages enjoy equal state recognition in the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia [ 17 ] and Oromo is the most populous language by native speakers, Amharic is the most populous by number ...
Kambaata may refer to: the Kambaata people; the Kambaata language This page was last edited on 29 December 2019, at 01:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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