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Deep dive into the Listro Gurage ethnology

Post by Misraq » 15 Mar 2026, 18:45

Let's start first with Soddo, Inor, Mesqan, Mesmes, Zay and Sebat Bet......

Their languages are not always mutually intelligible. One group, called the Sebat Bet which means seven houses and refer to a group of seven Gurage tribes, which in turn have their specific dialects!

.........to be continued


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Re: Deep dive into the Listro Gurage ethnology

Post by Misraq » 15 Mar 2026, 18:57

According to historian William Limf, there is no Gurage ethnicity per se`. What we have is a group of primitive clans who eat and dance in a similar way.

Limf argues that the Gurage collective clans were slaves of the Dawaro Kingdom before AmdeTsion, the Amhara king, discovered them. Dawaro trades ensence and slaves through Zeila and argues that much of the black tribes in India, Yemen and Oman are these early Gurage slaves.

In India and Oman, these early slaves still eat plant roots as a staple food much like KoOcho, Gurages staple food is derived from the root of a false banana ...

......to be continued

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Re: Deep dive into the Listro Gurage ethnology

Post by Odie » 15 Mar 2026, 19:23

Misraq wrote:
15 Mar 2026, 18:45
Let's start first with Soddo, Inor, Mesqan, Mesmes, Zay and Sebat Bet......

Their languages are not always mutually intelligible. One group, called the Sebat Bet which means seven houses and refer to a group of seven Gurage tribes, which in turn have their specific dialects!

.........to be continued

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Re: Deep dive into the Listro Gurage ethnology

Post by Odie » 15 Mar 2026, 19:27

Misraq wrote:
15 Mar 2026, 18:57
According to historian William Limf, there is no Gurage ethnicity per se`. What we have is a group of primitive clans who eat and dance in a similar way.

Limf argues that the Gurage collective clans were slaves of the Dawaro Kingdom before AmdeTsion, the Amhara king, discovered them. Dawaro trades ensence and slaves through Zeila and argues that much of the black tribes in India, Yemen and Oman are these early Gurage slaves.

In India and Oman, these early slaves still eat plant roots as a staple food much like KoOcho, Gurages staple food is derived from the root of a false banana ...

......to be continued
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Re: Deep dive into the Listro Gurage ethnology

Post by Misraq » 15 Mar 2026, 19:37

The Dawaro kingdom in southern Ethiopia got weakened as the Hadiya kingdom sphere of influence increased in the Gurage Zone. Hadiyas lived in a vast land in the 14th century and were tributary states of the Abyssinian kingdom under Emperor Isaak.

Emperor Isaak song of victory in early Amharic mentioned Somalis, Dawros and Hadiyas. The song also mentions a specific slave clans of Hadiya named Gurkg and this name was a corrupted call to Gurage ethnicity.

William Limf suggests that the northern most Gurkg clans were Kestane and were called as such because Emperor AmdeTsion converted them to Christianity. Those under the Dawaro influence were Silte and the rest are intermingled clans to nilotic neighbours of the south......

........to be continued

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Re: Deep dive into the Listro Gurage ethnology

Post by ethiopianunity » 16 Mar 2026, 05:23

So says, Shabo -Adwan Misraq pausing as Amara

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