recent estimate (2017), the people of Wolayta numbered 5.83 million in Welayta Zone. The language of the Wolayta people, similarly called Wolaytta, belongs...

Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia. It is the native language of the Welayta people. The estimates of the population vary...

or Wolaita may refer to: Wolayta people, an ethnic group of Ethiopia Wolaytta language, spoken by the Welayta people Wolayita Zone, a zone in SNNPR, Ethiopia...

SIM). Today, the vast majority of Aari Christians are Protestants. Welayta people List of ethnic groups in Ethiopia "Ethiopian Census 2007". csa.gov.et...

Wolayta (96.31%); all other ethnic groups made up 3.69% of the population. Welayta was spoken as a first language by 96.82% of the inhabitants; the remaining...

harvesting, it is used as a food source until their crops are ready. The Welayta people in the nearby Wolayita Zone do not weed out S. nigrum that appears in...

previous year to 63.6%. Priority was given to certain zones, such as Sidama, Welayta and Gurage, as well as the Alaba special woreda and several resettlement...

South Ethiopia Regional State since August 2023. Tesfaye is from the Welayta people and he was chief administrator of Wolayita Zone from 2011 to 2013. Tesfaye...

division of Ethiopian football. The club was established in 2009 by the Welayta Development Association. The club is partly funded by local government...

least 17 people were killed in August 2020 by security forces. This was following calls for making a separate region for the Welayta people in the same...

various ethnic groups in North Omo zone, which was often blamed on the Welayta people for "ethnic chauvinism" and despite the efforts of the ruling party...

Federal Housing Corporation since June 2017. Haileberhan is from the Welayta people and he was chief administrator of Wolayita Zone from November 2006 to...

particularly the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region. Among these are the Welayta and Gamo. Nilo-Saharan-speaking Nilotic ethnic groups...

1985 album Bali Helele. In the mid-1980s, he was involved in promoting Welayta people traditional music. In 1984, the music on cassette that was made public...

Theresa Thalers or 0.50 US dollars. As Chauncey Hugh Stigand states, the Welayta people had developed the art of weaving and wearing cloths made up of cotton...

Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically...

Oromo 30.4% Amhara 27.0% Somali 6.1% Tigray 6.1% Sidama 4.0% Gurage 2.5% Welayta 2.3% Hadiya 1.7% Afar 1.7% Gamo 1.5% Other ethnic groups 12.6% Ethiopian...

Hallpike (1972), Konso family traditions indicate that they are a composite people, both physically and culturally, with members originally hailing from all...

the Kambaata (18.01%), the Halaba (12.91%), the Silte (11.83%), and the Welayta (11.18%); all other ethnic groups made up 22.32% of the population. Amharic...

that 118,000 Welayta and 90,000 Shewan troops died in the fighting. Kawo (King) Tona Gaga, the last king of Welayta, was defeated and Welayta conquered in...

Gedeo Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR) is named for this people. They speak the Gedeo language, which is one of the...

the Harla people according to the Karrayyu Oromo. According to oral traditions, Shewa had a powerful king named Sarako, who prevented the people from bearing...

old Wej province in Ethiopia. The Mayas were a Cushitic-speaking nomadic people, who were feared and dreaded by their neighbors for their use of deadly...

Borana and Welayta, created from conquered states of that name, were merged into Sidamo. Sidamo was the scene of a revolt of the Gedeo people in 1960 who...

Welayta (1.82%), and the Silt'e (1.28%). Oromo was spoken as a first language by 55.30%, 25.70% spoke Somali, 15.96% spoke Burji, 3.96% spoke Welayta...

this Zone included the Gamo people (64.61%), the Gofa people (22.08%), the Oyda (2.35%), the Amhara (2.32%), the Welayta (1.91%), and the Basketo (1.38%);...

they historically settled and encouraged them to live there. The Alemgena-Welayta Road Construction Association was founded by the Kistane during Haile Sellasie's...

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 12.6%. Afroasiatic-speaking...

early missionary work was concentrated among the Hadiya Welayta, Kambaata and Sidama peoples, which are the three most densely populated awrajas (regions)...

the conclusion that the four ethnic groups—the Goffa, Gamo, Kullo and Welayta -- all spoke minor variants of the same language and shared other aspects...