Kebena and Mareqo Gurage minorities not numbering more than 25,000, Kembata, Halaba, Tambaro and Hadiya are classified as Highland East Cushitic. Highland West Cushitic, Sidama is distant from us, of course not exactly alien.Noble Amhara wrote: ↑05 Jul 2024, 22:57So kabena and mareko are hadiya?Dama wrote: ↑05 Jul 2024, 22:39There are some shared words. Also grammars are the same with Kebena, Mareqo, therefore with Hadiya the source of criminal thugs, PP is faulted for being soft and luckwarmNoble Amhara wrote: ↑05 Jul 2024, 22:05Hadiya your neighbor to the south speaks a language that sounds nothing like your gurage language
that loot Gurage shops in Welkite and Qose, and loot buses and trailer trucks on highways.
Army of Imams Baqsa and Hassan Injamo ruled Kembata and Kebena, got a lot of support against Menelick of Shoa. We were one unlike Now where Gurage elites, most of whom are Christians abandoned Gurage's larger interests.
Btw Gurage zone is 49% Muslim therefore you should have your own elites by now you have no one to blame but yourself.
Also are Silti Gurages or Hadiyas?
You know hadiya dance like arsi oromo?
We are related in shared words and grammar. Gurage dialects share some words from these groups and grammar stricture. All of them end their past verbs with m. For example, in Chaha, werem= hede= he went.
Gurage Muslims in 7bet are majority. Resisted the Shoa expansion and annexation in a manner all semitic groups fight; ferociously. We have been punished for it by the Ethiopian State that established itself upon our defeat.
Divided, suppressed and oppressed when the enemy gained power over us. Few among us were crowned over us and rewarded handsomely. Millionaires. Professors. Generals, Fitawraris and Dejazmatchs and all the perks that accompany these prestigious allures.
Whe I went to school, in a class of 50, I was the only name with a strange name of Muslim. All were called Berhanu, Tadese, Gebre, Sahle. Baptism in a church made sure they had these Amara/Tigrey names. To them, it was a name for being a Christian kid.
1 out 50, a Muslim studen in a Muslim community of majority.
Gurage Muslim student population has progressed well. Now it is at 33%. 33 of 100 students are Muslims. We are getting there.
But Gurage may go extinct before we can save it by the dual squeeze of Amara assimilation and Oromo dispossesion of Gurage lands.