Except Gurage is not ruled by feudal lords and a common language like Amaharic spoken in all the independent kingdoms of Shewa, Gozzam, Begemdir and Wello, everything else is the same. Gurage's Zemene mesafint entails indepedent dialect groups governing themselves, speaking and writing their little dialects to develop them for their future indepedent republics of Gurage. Solely dialect as a defining factor of each Gurage republic. There is , however, Kistane otherwise widely known as Sodo, adds religion as equal to dialect if not the most defining Sodo reublic of Gurage.
PP is financing this fracturing of Gurage into its bits and pieces.
By all indications, Sodo is the most excited sub-sub group about the establishment of these pocket size independent Gurage dialect republics.