1. Ethiopian languages
(Language/Language)

... super-family is represented by six major families, three of which are spoken in Ethiopia: namely, Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic. While the first two of these are spoken in other African countries, Omo...

2. Cushitic
(Ethnic diversity/Ethnic diversity)

Oromo being the most numerous among cushitic groups and in Ethiopia as whole, Somali, Sidama and Afar are other members of the cushtic group. Majority of them practice agriculture, but we have cattle

3. Semitic
(Ethnic diversity/Ethnic diversity)

...aith. 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 com...

4. Lalibela
(History/Ancient)

...n the Agew district of Lasta, it developed naturally out of the long cultural and political contact between Cushitic- and Semitic-speaking peoples in the northern highlands. Staunch Christians, the Za...

5. Ethnic diversity
(Category Blog)

...e north and northeast) can be classified, following the linguistic pattern, into four main groups: Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilo-Saharan. ...