beautiesofafrique: The Amhara people of Ethiopia The name Amhara means pleasing, agreeable, beautiful, and gracious. The Amhara are one of the two largest ethnolinguistic groups in Ethiopia (the other group being the Oromo). They constitute almost one-third of the country’s population. The Amharic language is an Afro-Asiatic language belonging to the Southwest Semitic group. It is related to Geʿez, the sacred literary language of the Ethiopian
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