K. there's no point on continuing on this so i'll just bury it here. South Semitic ancestry is very small in Ethiopians and insignificant compared to the whole population. I'm just impressed by how so many of us deny admixture with Yemenis, greater than the xabesha's, and claim that our neighbours are semites despite being a far older cushitic nation. To me it looks like insecurity due to xabeshas looking more 'caucasoid' but take it as u want. I admit that many of us have Yemeni mixture but it doesn't belittle my Somali sense of self sbx. There's literally light skin timo jileec Somalis with brown hair and we call no foreign admixture. Look at old photos of geeljires and see how SSA they look.
Also saying that Ethios colonisef Yemen doesn't mean anything. Italians are pretty much the same as 'Italians' back in the Roman empire smh.
btw you're correct highlander languages are Semitic. Any previous Cushitic origin isn't present anymore.