What do you think of the label Cushitic?

[Xabeshi]

Should it be renamed?

 

[Espaa_]

In my opinion yes because of the biblical “the curse of Ham”. Extreme groups such as the Hebrew Israelites honestly believe we descend from his son called Cush and that we are cursed with black skin

astaghfirullah.

 

[cunug3aad]

In my opinion yes because of the biblical “the curse of Ham”. Extreme groups such as the Hebrew Israelites honestly believe we descend from his son called Cush and that we are cursed with black skin

astaghfirullah.

Hebrew israelites are a joke, cushites are more jewish then them

 

[wonyluvr]

Should it be renamed?

Yeah new name!!!!!

 

[Nur_]

In my eyes, cushite is just a linguistic group. I don't think of it as an ethnicity. Naturally, we are related to other cushitic speakers but that is as far as it goes.

 

[Einar68]

i just say "horn african" works better as it's a geographical landmass. "horn african and other communities similar to it" works when adding groups like the northern sudanese for example

 

[novanova]

I feel like I rarely heard that word until Abiy came into office.

 

[The alchemist]

Not your concern as a Habash.

 

[Shimbiris]

Not your concern as a Habash.

I've said it before but the word "Af" is very much our ancestors screaming at us to maybe use it somehow for a branch name. Many East Cushitic languages use it for "mouth" and "language" and use it also to refer to the language itself:

Af Soomaali
Afaan Oromoo
Qafar Af
Sidaamu Afoo

It is such a deep root that it is also a word in Ethiosemitic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya as the word for mouth: አፍ (Afi). You even find it in Beja as "Yaf" and "Yeef" for "mouth". Afitic?