The Gafat people (Amharic: ጋፋት) are an extinct ethnic group that once inhabited present day western Ethiopia.[1] They spoke the Gafat language, an extinct South Ethiopic grouping within the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic languages and closely related to Harari and Eastern Gurage languages. According to Alleqa Taye, in the year 1922 Gafat was only spoken privately in Gojjam due to the Amhara designating them outcasts.[2]
^Mercer, Samuel (1946). Anglican Theological Review. Marquette University. p. 111.
^Shack, William (10 February 2017). The Central Ethiopians, Amhara, Tigriňa and Related Peoples: North Eastern Africa Part IV, Part 4. Routledge. ISBN 9781315307695.
The Gafatpeople (Amharic: ጋፋት) are an extinct ethnic group that once inhabited present day western Ethiopia. They spoke the Gafat language, an extinct...
The Gafat language is an extinct South Ethiopic language once spoken by the Gafatpeople along the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, and later, speakers pushed south...
Gafat Armament Engineering Complex is an Ethiopian arms industry and one of the military production facilities of the Metals and Engineering Corporation...
Afroasiatic languages and closely related to Harari and Argobba languages. Gafatpeople, an extinct ethnic group in western Ethiopia Østebø, Terje (30 September...
pagan southern peoples had converted to Christianity to avoid further slave raids. Among those who requested conversion were the Gafatpeople in the former...
Argobba and the Harari people. In antiquity Ge'ez-speaking people inhabited the Aksumite Empire; the ancient Semitic-speaking Gafat inhabited Eastern Damot...
Harar, numerous loanwords were additionally borrowed from Egyptian Arabic. Gafat language, now extinct, was once spoken in the Blue Nile was related to a...
succumbed to Amhara acculturation. Other South Semitic speakers like the Gafat and Argobba in Shewa also began to adopt Amharic and assimilate into Amhara...
Sabr ad-Din I. The region's inhabitants were mostly the now extinct Gafatpeople. Endagabatan was invaded by the Adal Sultanate under Ahmad ibn Ibrahim...
2013. "Advertisement flyer for manufacturing capabilities of the GAEC – Gafat Armament Engineering Complex". Archived from the original on July 10, 2011...
Tomal, also known as Tumal or Tumaal, is an artisanal caste among Somali people. Their traditional hereditary occupation has been as smiths and leather...
spread throughout much of the country, replacing both Semitic (such as Gafat) and non-Semitic (such as Weyto) languages, and replacing Ge'ez as the principal...
the Harla people according to the Karrayyu Oromo. According to oral traditions, Shewa had a powerful king named Sarako, who prevented the people from bearing...
They also shared considerable geographic and linguistic polity with the Gafat, now an extinct group, and which was located adjacent to them, encompassing...
in his conflict with the Zagwe dynasty. Historians have identified the Gafat regiments of the Malassay played a key role in founding the Christian Solomonic...
Tigray/Eritrea, and Lasta) of Bete Amhara, Gojjam, Begemder, northern Shewa, Gafat, and Damot The region's recorded history, in fact, goes back to the early...
dating back to the fourteenth century have been located. The local Argobba people credited Arabs for building these towns. Islam was introduced to the Horn...
generations and may become extinct, victims of language death, as Weyto, Gafat, and Mesmes have and Ongota very soon will. The factors that contribute...
occupation of Abyssinia, Galawdewos initially took refuge in the province of Gafat. Despite his youth, over the next few months he made several successful...
Wolkayt, and Lasta) of Bete Amhara, Gojjam, Begemdir, northern Shewa, Gafat, and Damot The region’s recorded history, in fact, goes back to the first...
provided incentives for people to stay in rural areas. As people moved from rural areas to the cities, there were fewer people to grow food for the population...
along with the Abuna Salama III and the group of missionaries based at Gafat, all interceded for the release of the imprisoned pair, and for a while...
institute is the school of veterinary medicine of Addis Ababa University. The Gafat Armament Engineering Complex is located here. According to the Nordic Africa...
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