what is habashi or xabeshi?
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Amaan Duule
Habesha are the semitic speaking inhabitants of the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea, such as the Amhara, Tigray, Tigrinya, etc. Not all Ethiopians are Habesha, only the semitic speaking ones. Oromos aren't Habesha, for example. Since the Habesha dominate Ethiopia, some people just use the word to refer to Ethiopians in general.
that's what I used to think too until I saw Amhara vs Tigray doing fadhi ku dirir. Apparently, Tigrays have being called habesh, they will tell "we are not habesh"! I think the term better describes the Amharas only.
Habesha are the people in the yellow area. Some will tell you that all Semitic speakers are Habesha, but this is not true. Gurage, Adari, Silt'e are not Habesha as they were conquered and made gabbar, same as everyone else. Habesha is a political term meaning Christian citizen of highland Abyssinia. They conquered everyone living in the pink area.
Not true at all, all Tigrayans claim Habesha and Tigrinya speakers were the first people to call themselves Habesha, Amhara people adopted the term later, many Tigrinya speakers historically never considered Amhara to be Habesha
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Only place habesha means slave is parts of Somalia
Highlanders in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea
Yeah, that's why I said some dialects.
