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Kwegu people information


Kwegu
A group of kwegu people in Ethiopia (2019)
Regions with significant populations
Ethiopia
Languages
Kwegu
Religion
Animist
Related ethnic groups
Surmic peoples

The Kwegu are an ethnic group that lives on the western banks of the Omo River in the newly formed South Ethiopia Region. Some members of the Kwegu also live on the eastern banks of the river among the Mursi. Previously they were hunter-gatherers, but today they are engaged in a mixed economy of hunting, farming, beekeeping, and fishing.

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Kwegu people

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The Kwegu are an ethnic group that lives on the western banks of the Omo River in the newly formed South Ethiopia Region. Some members of the Kwegu also...

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Kwegu

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Kwegu may refer to: the Kwegu people the Kwegu language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kwegu. If an internal link led...

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Mursi people

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Suri, Kwegu, and tribes in South Sudan such as Murle, Didinga, Tennet and Boya. According to the 1994 national census, there were 3,163 people who were...

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Surma people

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[clarification needed] or for contradictory purposes. The Suri are an agro-pastoral people and inhabit part of the South western Ethiopia of West Omo Zone Suri woreda...

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Harari people

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The Harari people (Harari: ጌይ ኡሱኣች Gēy Usuach, "People of the City") are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group which inhabits the Horn of Africa. Members of...

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Argobba people

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settling in Ifat. Argobba have historical links with Harari and Harla people. Argobba people consider the inhabitants of Doba their ancestors. After the collapse...

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Surmic languages

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are classified as follows: Surmic Majang South Surmic Southeast Surmic Kwegu Pastoral Surmic Me'en Tirma–Chai–Mursi Mursi Tirma–Chai Southwest Surmic...

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Ilchamus people

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Njemps), are a Maa-speaking people living south and southeast of Lake Baringo, Kenya. They numbered approximately 32,949 people in 2019 and are closely related...

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Weyto caste

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Oromo, the Fuga or Mana among the Gurage, the Manjo among the Kaffa, the Kwegu among the Mursi/Bodi, the Hadicho among the Sidama, and the Mijan and Yibir...

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Ethiopians

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ago) with other African peoples. It was thought that Hamitic people from Asia Minor had migrated before Semitic Arabian people in the 7th century BC. In...

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Mursi language

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people. Mursi is classified as belonging to the Southeast Surmic languages, to which the following other languages also belong: Suri, Me'en and Kwegu...

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Languages of Ethiopia

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South Sudan) Komo language Kunama language (also in Eritrea) Kwama language Kwegu language Majang language Me'en language Murle language (also in South Sudan)...

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Omo River

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cultivation possible. The diverse peoples along the lower Omo—which include the Turkana, Dassanach, Hamer, Nyangatom, Karo, Kwegu, Mursi, Bodi, and Me'en—derive...

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Elgon languages

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(spoken by about 120,000 people) and Sabaot (spoken by about 134,000 people). Sabaot is a common name assumed by various related peoples, including the Kony...

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Maasai language

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Maasai people, numbering about 1.5 million. It is closely related to the other Maa varieties: Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people of central...

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Luo languages

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The dozen Luo, Lwo or Lwoian languages are spoken by the Luo peoples in an area ranging from southern Sudan to western Ethiopia to southern Kenya, with...

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List of ethnic groups in Ethiopia

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population is highly diverse, containing over 80 different ethnic groups. Most people in Ethiopia speak Afro-Asiatic languages, mainly of the Cushitic and Semitic...

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Daju languages

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The Daju languages are spoken in isolated pockets by the Daju people across a wide area of Sudan and Chad. In Sudan, they are spoken in parts of the regions...

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Adhola dialect

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Jopadhola and Ludama, is a dialect of Southern Luo spoken by the Adhola people (a.k.a. Jopadhola or Badama) of Uganda. Dhopadhola is generally mutually...

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Western Nilotic languages

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Dinka–Nuer and Luo. The Luo Languages are languages spoken by the Luo peoples. They include but are not fully limited to, Shilluk, Luwo, Thuri, Belanda...

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Nubi language

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there by the British colonial administration. It was spoken by about 15,000 people in Uganda in 1991 (according to the census), and an estimated 10,000 in...

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Nobiin language

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Mountains of Kordofan. For a long time it was assumed that the Nubian peoples dispersed from the Nile Valley to the south, probably at the time of the...

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Kuku dialect

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to be derived from English too by the more educated Kuku people. More educated Kuku people mix the language with some English in it mostly for example...

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Nyima languages

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North Majang Southeast Kwegu Meʼen Mursi Suri Southwest Baale Didinga Murle Laarim Tennet...

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Nilotic languages

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Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples. The word Nilotic means of or relating to the Nile River or to the Nile region of Africa. Nilotic peoples, who are the native...

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Acholi dialect

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(also Leb Acoli, or Leb Lwo) is a Southern Luo dialect spoken by the Acholi people in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum, Amuru, Lamwo, Agago, Nwoya, Omoro and...

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