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Based on our earlier classification, the Semitic family is constituted by the Tigreans and Amharas in the northern and central parts of the country, respectively, and the Gurage and the Harari in the southern and eastern parts of the country, respectively, and practice mainly agriculture.

Typical male dress

Traditional dance: Harari

The Amharas and the Tigreans are in the main agricultural communities cultivating different crops, depending on the topography and the climate of the areas they inhabit. The crops they grow include teff (the staple of most of these peoples), wheat, barley, maize, and sorghum. Both groups share the legacy of ancient Axum and are mainly practitioners of the Ethiopian Orthodox Monophysite faith.

The Gurage, the most southerly of the Semitic groups, practice farming and herding, but, like their Cushitic neighbours, they also subsist largely on enset (false banana root, refined in a complex process into differnt types of dishes). But they also cultivate other crops. While some Gurage communities adhere to the Ethiopian Orthodox faith, others are Muslims.