Wolayttatto Doonaa (ancestral and primary) Amharic (auxiliary)
Religion
Mainly Protestant Christians with sizable minority of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christians
Related ethnic groups
Gamo, Gofa and other Omotic and Southwest Ethiopian peoples.
The Welayta, Wolayta or Wolaytto (Ge'ez: ወላይታ Wolaytta) are an ethnic group and its former kingdom, located in southern Ethiopia. According to the most recent estimate (2017), the people of Wolayta numbered 5.83 million in Welayta Zone.[2][3] The language of the Wolayta people, similarly called Wolaytta, belongs to the Omotic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Despite their small population, Wolayta people have widely influenced national music, dance and cuisine in Ethiopia.
^"Population Size by Sex, Area and Density by Region, Zone and Wereda : July 2022" (PDF). www.statsethiopia.gov.et.
^"Population Size by Sex, Region, Zone and Wereda: July 2021" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
^"Population Size of Towns by Sex, Region, Zone and Weredas as of July 2021" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
recent estimate (2017), the people of Wolayta numbered 5.83 million in Welayta Zone. The language of the Wolayta people, similarly called Wolaytta, belongs...
or Wolaita may refer to: Wolayta people, an ethnic group of Ethiopia Wolaytta language, spoken by the Welaytapeople Wolayita Zone, a zone in SNNPR, Ethiopia...
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia. It is the native language of the Welaytapeople. The estimates of the population vary...
SIM). Today, the vast majority of Aari Christians are Protestants. Welaytapeople List of ethnic groups in Ethiopia "Ethiopian Census 2007". csa.gov.et...
harvesting, it is used as a food source until their crops are ready. The Welaytapeople in the nearby Wolayita Zone do not weed out S. nigrum that appears in...
Wolayta (96.31%); all other ethnic groups made up 3.69% of the population. Welayta was spoken as a first language by 96.82% of the inhabitants; the remaining...
various ethnic groups in North Omo zone, which was often blamed on the Welaytapeople for "ethnic chauvinism" and despite the efforts of the ruling party...
South Ethiopia Regional State since August 2023. Tesfaye is from the Welaytapeople and he was chief administrator of Wolayita Zone from 2011 to 2013. Tesfaye...
Federal Housing Corporation since June 2017. Haileberhan is from the Welaytapeople and he was chief administrator of Wolayita Zone from November 2006 to...
1985 album Bali Helele. In the mid-1980s, he was involved in promoting Welaytapeople traditional music. In 1984, the music on cassette that was made public...
Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically...
particularly the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region. Among these are the Welayta and Gamo. Nilo-Saharan-speaking Nilotic ethnic groups...
Theresa Thalers or 0.50 US dollars. As Chauncey Hugh Stigand states, the Welaytapeople had developed the art of weaving and wearing cloths made up of cotton...
Gedeo Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR) is named for this people. They speak the Gedeo language, which is one of the...
settling in Ifat. Argobba have historical links with Harari and Harla people. Argobba people consider the inhabitants of Doba their ancestors. After the collapse...
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...
Hallpike (1972), Konso family traditions indicate that they are a composite people, both physically and culturally, with members originally hailing from all...
the Kambaata (18.01%), the Halaba (12.91%), the Silte (11.83%), and the Welayta (11.18%); all other ethnic groups made up 22.32% of the population. Amharic...
Welayta (1.82%), and the Silt'e (1.28%). Oromo was spoken as a first language by 55.30%, 25.70% spoke Somali, 15.96% spoke Burji, 3.96% spoke Welayta...
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...
Borana and Welayta, created from conquered states of that name, were merged into Sidamo. Sidamo was the scene of a revolt of the Gedeo people in 1960 who...
groups reported in Awasa were the Sidama (48.68%), the Amhara (15.43%), the Welayta (13.90%), the Oromo (5.21%), and the Gurage (4.33%); all other ethnic groups...
this Zone included the Gamo people (64.61%), the Gofa people (22.08%), the Oyda (2.35%), the Amhara (2.32%), the Welayta (1.91%), and the Basketo (1.38%);...
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