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[AbyssiniaLady]

I think god has cursed Ethiopia, there are so many different ethnic groups, culture, religions and languages in Ethiopia, Our overcrowded aid-dependent Ethiopia is doomed forever and It is going to totally disintegrate sooner than we thought, I have sympathy for ethnic minorities, they are trapped in serengeti.

These are some of Ethiopia 84 different ethnic groups.



And here is what we know about our former northern provinces.

• Prior to the arrival of Italian, there was no country called Eritrea or Eritrean people, Eritrea was just occupied by different ethnic groups since time immemorial.

• Asmara and Massawa were built with Ethiopian (particularly Oromiya) resources.

• Eritrea has no natural resources other than Afar potash, Afar marine resources and likely Afar offshore oil and natural gas.

• Eritrea has become one man private property that displaced tens of thousands of Afar from their sweet homes.

• Today, Eritrean lives and politics revolves around Tigray, TPLF, unstable Ethiopia internal affairs and Mona lisa this and that, sad but true.

• We also know that Afar state will eventually escape from Eritrea.

• What else do we know about our former northern province? Oh yes, We know Tigrinya people really afraid of Tigre people.

The Eritrean Afar State.

[Zmeselo]

I think god has cursed Ethiopia, there are so many different ethnic groups, culture, religions and languages in Ethiopia, Our overcrowded aid-dependent Ethiopia is doomed forever and It is going to totally disintegrate sooner than we thought, I have sympathy for ethnic minorities, they are trapped in serengeti.

These are some of Ethiopia 84 different ethnic groups.



And here is what we know about our former northern provinces.

• Prior to the arrival of Italian, there was no country called Eritrea or Eritrean people, Eritrea was just occupied by different ethnic groups since time immemorial.

• Asmara and Massawa were built with Ethiopian (particularly Oromiya) resources.

• Eritrea has no natural resources other than Afar potash, Afar marine resources and likely Afar offshore oil and natural gas.

• Eritrea has become one man private property that displaced tens of thousands of Afar from their sweet homes.

• Today, Eritrean lives and politics revolves around Tigray, TPLF, unstable Ethiopia internal affairs and Mona lisa this and that, sad but true.

[AbyssiniaLady]

Ongota , one of the languages spoken in Benatsemai district in Ethiopia’s southern region is nearing extinction (video)

Mereja Media April 8, 2021

Ongota, one of the languages spoken in Benatsemai district in Ethiopia’s Southern Nations Nationalities Peoples Region (SNNPR) is nearing extinction due to a drop in the number of fluent speakers of the language.

Geida Qawale, is one of the 13 Berahaile ethnic people who speak the Ongota language. He claimed other languages, particularly that of Tsemai, dominated the Ongota language . “The language is rarely spoken as the native speakers meet on different occasions.” Geida told EBC. Video:


https://mereja.com/index/355857

[Abere]

AbyssiniaLady,

Well, this is natural. Language is like a living organism. It can be born, can grow, triumph and finally die. Like Geez the forerunner of Amharic now is a dead language overtaken by Amharic. Don't be surprised about this; and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Tomorrow Tigrigna, Oromigga ,other etc. languages will die too. It is not even number of the people it spoken by is about the inherent quality of the language likely affects is life expectancy. That is why most folks say stop this madness about language federation. Language has nothing to do with governance other than used as medium of communication. It can be given up as medium of communication if the invisible hand in the objective market finds it less useful or less sophisticated and inefficient.

[Misraq]

AbissiniaLady we know you are a [deleted]. ቂንጥርም ቅልጥም (ባቄላ የሚያህል) አለህ።

አይደለም እንዴ?

[AbyssiniaLady]

AbyssiniaLady,

Well, this is natural. Language is like a living organism. It can be born, can grow, triumph and finally die. Like Geez the forerunner of Amharic now is a dead language overtaken by Amharic. Don't be surprised about this; and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Tomorrow Tigrigna, Oromigga ,other etc. languages will die too. It is not even number of the people it spoken by is about the inherent quality of the language likely affects is life expectancy. That is why most folks say stop this madness about language federation. Language has nothing to do with governance other than used as medium of communication. It can be given up as medium of communication if the invisible hand in the objective market finds it less useful or less sophisticated and inefficient.

Oromos can barely understand each other, Oromiffa is not a standard language and does not have any proper rule of grammar or any writing vocabulary rules, there are considerable vocabulary differences between Oromo region, Oromiffa, as it is spoken today, will have disappeared in one hundred years and could be replaced by Amharic and Somali.

Tigrigna and Christianity

Both are already in danger and will become extinct within the next one hundred years, Although Eritrea government is hell bent on promoting only Tigrigna, It has no future, Isaias Afwerki (Just like Haile Selassie) tried his best to extinguish the flourishing other Eritrean languages Tigre, Afar, Saho etc, But in vain.

[Blueshift]

Habashi lady,

You are wrong. Actually, Isayas worked very hard to bring an Eritrean identity based of diversity. Back in the fifties, Eritrean official languages were Tigrigna and Arabic. ELF fought to respect and maintain that. Isayas and co. went the other way of the so called working languages and worked hard to bring diversity. If you ask me, Arabic and English , may prove to be the working languages Eastern Africa in the future. I would give it about fifty years from now. The strategic and economic power of the Arabian peninsula is very powerful to ignore.