Sidama or Sidaamu Afoo is an Afro-Asiatic language belonging to the Highland East Cushitic branch of the Cushitic family. It is spoken in parts of southern...

2019, the Sidama Zone became the 10th regional state in Ethiopia after a zone-wide referendum. They speak the Sidama language, which is a language of the...

Sidama has a population of around 3.2 million in 2017 who speak the Cushitic language Sidama (also known as Sidaamu Afoo). Historically the Sidama nation...

speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, and Sidama. The Cushitic languages with the greatest number of total speakers are Oromo (37 million)...

most populous language is Sidama, with close to two million speakers. The languages are: Burji (divergent) Sidamoid (also Sidamic) Sidama Gedeo Hadiyya–Libido...

Lat. ignis and Skt. agni (fire) Lith. sėdime and Lat. sedemus and Skt. sīdama (we sit) This even extends to grammar, where for example Latin noun declensions...

Somali speakers numbering 6,720,000; Tigrinya speakers numbering 6,390,000; Sidama speakers numbering 4,340,000; Wolaytta speakers numbering 2,380,000; Sebat...

Hadiyya and Sidama languages, spoken in the neighboring regions. All of these are classified in the group of Highland East Cushitic languages. They are...

Central Sidama Zone (Amharic: ማዕከላዊ ሲዳማ ዞን) is an administrative zone in Sidama Region. The zone was established upon a resolution passed by the Sidama regional...

the Sidama region. Southern Sidama Zone is established in August 2022 up on resolution passed by Sidama regional state council. Southern Sidama is bordered...

Eastern Sidama is an administrative zone in Sidama Region. The zone is established up on resolution passed by Sidama regional state council at its third...

continuum. Cerulli, Enrico. 1929. Note su alcune popolazioni Sidama dell'Abesinia meridionale 2: I Sidama dell'Omo. Rivisita degli Studi Orientalia, 12. (Il linguaggio...

Butajira, Welkite, Bonga, Hosaena and Worabe. The region dissolved when Sidama Region, Southwest Ethiopia Region, South Ethiopia Regional State and Central...

Ariaal people Aweer people Garre Tunni Burji speakers of the Burji language Sidama people Gedeo people Hadiya people Kambaata people Halaba people Burunge...

was held in the Sidama Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, in which voters supported a proposal for Sidama Zone to become...

Northern Sidama is an administrative zone in Sidama Region. The zone is formed up on resolution passed by Sidama regional state council at its third round...

A referendum on the creation of a Sidama Region was held on regionalisation in the Sidama Zone of Ethiopia on 20 November 2019. The creation of such a...

July 2021. Tefera, Anbessa (1987). "Ballissha: Women's Speech Among the Sidama". Journal of Ethiopian Studies. XX: 44–59. Treis, Yvonne (2005). "Avoiding...

territories to the south, east, and west — areas inhabited by the Oromo, Sidama, Gurage, Welayta, and other peoples. He achieved this with the help of Ras...

The Sidama zone split from the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) to become the Sidama region after the 2019 Sidama Region...

and 75 km (47 mi) north of Dilla. The town serves as the capital of the Sidama Region. It lies on the Trans-African Highway 4 Cairo-Cape Town and has a...

on 2nd anniversary of the region. Central Sidama Zone Eastern Sidama Zone Northern Sidama Zone Southern Sidama Zone Sitti Zone Fafan Zone Jarar Zone Erer...

Basque Burushaski Cherokee Cushitic languages (Afar, Beja, Bilen, Oromo, Saho, Sidama, Somali) Dakota Dravidian languages (Brahui, Duruwa, Gondi, Kannada...

people of South Sudan) Maasai religion (Maasai people of Kenya) Sidama mythology (Sidama people of Ethiopia) Waaqeffanna (Oromo people of Ethiopia and Kenya)...

moth of family Cossidae Sidama people, an ethnic group whose homeland is in the Sidama Zone of the SNNPR of Ethiopia Sidama Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities...

decreased in the following centuries. Clans of Hadiya origin in Oromia, Sidama, Wolayta, Gurage, Tigray (Rayyaa, Azaaboo, and Ashaange), and Afar were...

postulated Harari speakers were in direct contact with Sidama, Afar and Somali. The first known Harari language dictionary in English was published by British...

latter kingdoms are quite similar to those practiced by the former Cushitic Sidama states in the southern Gibe region of Ethiopia. By contrast, Bantu populations...

population respectively. Other prominent ethnic groups are as follows: Sidama 4.0%, Gurage 2.5%, Welayta 2.3%, Afar 1.7%, Hadiya 1.7%, Gamo 1.5% and Others...

fought with the nearby rival peoples and states of Hadiya, Arsi, Gujii, Sidama and Kembata, after he stabilized the kingdom and extended the frontiers...