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The Saho represent about 4% of the population of Eritrea as of 2021. [12] A 2012 estimate placed the Saho-speaking population of Ethiopia at 37,000. [13] According to Ethnologue, there are approximately 220,000 total Saho speakers as of 2015. Most are concentrated in Eritrea with the remainder inhabiting Ethiopia.
The Irob people (Ge'ez: ኢሮብ ʾirōb, also spelled Erob) are an ethnic group who live in a predominantly highland, mountainous area by the same name in Eritrea and Ethiopia. They speak the Saho language. Most of them profess the Catholic Christian religion and are mostly farmers.
Ethiopia's population is highly diverse, containing over 80 different ethnic groups. Most people in Ethiopia speak Afro-Asiatic languages, mainly of the Cushitic and Semitic branches. The former includes the Oromo and Somali, and the latter includes the Amhara and Tigray. Together these four groups make up three-quarters of the population.
The Tigre/Saho speaking Taroa people were a section of the Assaborta tribe, which was well known for its People's passionate dispositions and hard -core integrity. The Assaborta had stubbornly resisted their incorporation into the Great Coptic Tradition when they settled some centuries ago in the area now known as Tigray Province .
Doba (Amharic: ዶባ, Afar: Dobaq) also known as the Country of Dobas was a historical Muslim region in central modern Ethiopia. [1] Historian Fesseha Berhe associates Doba with the Saho people. [2] Historian John Trimingham argues that the people of Doba were of Afar stock. [3] The people of Doba are considered extinct today. [4]
Cushitic-speaking peoples are the ethnolinguistic groups who speak Cushitic languages natively. Today, the Cushitic languages are spoken as a mother tongue primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north and south in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Saho may refer to: Saho people, an ethnic group living largely in the Horn of Africa Saho language, the language of the Saho people; Saaho, a 2019 film; Akari Saho (born 1995), Japanese musician; Saho Sasazawa, Japanese author; Saho Harada, Japanese synchronized swimmer; Lamin Saho, African singer; Saho (film), a 2023 Sri Lankan film
Of Tigrayan & Irob descent, [4] Dejazmatch Sabagadis was the son of Shum Agame Woldu Kumanit who ruled Agame from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries. Shum Agame Woldu's legacy was the ascendany of Saho speaking local Irob rulers over Tigrinya speaking Agame in the 18th century.