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In the Ethiopian language there are certain feminized slurs and idiomatic expressions that contrast women with animals. Teferra expresses that this kind of language strengthens negative generalizations and depicts gender based violence on women as though it is admissible and on occasion important.
Until 2020 Amharic was the sole official language of Ethiopia. [18] [19] [3] [20] [21] The 2007 census reported that Amharic was spoken by 21.6 million native speakers in Ethiopia. [22] More recent sources state the number of first-language speakers in 2018 as nearly 32 million, with another 25 million second-language speakers in Ethiopia. [11]
Somali is the official working language of Somali Region and Dire Dawa, while Afar, [20] Harari, [21] and Tigrinya [22] are recognized as official working languages in their respective regions. Recently the Ethiopian Government announced that Afar, Amharic, Oromo, Somali, and Tigrinya are adopted as official federal working languages of Ethiopia.
The culture of Ethiopia is diverse and generally structured along ethnolinguistic lines. The country's Afro-Asiatic-speaking majority adhere to an amalgamation of traditions that were developed independently and through interaction with neighboring and far away civilizations, including other parts of Northeast Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Italy.
Most of the Ethiopian Jewish communities in Ethiopia and Israel speak Amharic. [72] Many followers of the Rastafari movement learn Amharic as a second language, as they consider it to be a sacred language. [73] Amharic is the working language of the federal authorities of the Ethiopian government, and one of the five official languages of Ethiopia.
Me'en, Suri, Kwegu. [1] The Mursi (or Mun as they refer to themselves) [1][2] are a Surmic ethnic group in Ethiopia. They principally reside in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, close to the border with South Sudan. According to the 2007 national census, there are 11,500 Mursi, 848 of whom live in ...
Surma people. Suri is a collective name for three ethnic groups (Chai, Timaga, and Baale) mainly living in Suri woreda, in southwestern Ethiopia. They share many similarities politically, territorially, culturally and economically but speak different languages. They all speak South East Surmic languages within the Nilo-Saharan language family ...
Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world. [16] Its total population has grown from 38.1 million in 1983 to 109.5 million in 2018. [17] The population was only about nine million in the 19th century. [18] The 2007 Population and Housing Census results show that the population of Ethiopia grew at an average annual rate of 2.6 ...