Yem people
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| 160,447 (2007) | |
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south-western  Hadya , Kembata |
The Yem are an ethnic group living in south-western
Omo River and the Jimma Oromo
to the south, north and west.
History
The first reference to Yem as a political unit is found, under the name of Jangero, in the victory song of King Yeshaq I (1412-1427) of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, as paying tribute in the form of horses to the king.[1] The first European traveler to mention Yem was the European traveler Father Fernandez, who travelled through their homeland in 1614.[2]
Population
Their number was not definitely known until recently, as Aklilu Yilma states, "Bender gives the estimate as '1000' (Bender 1976: 4), whereas the Oromia Region and 74,906 in the SNNPR.[6]
See also
- Yem special woreda
- Kingdom of Janjero
References
- ^ G.W.B. Huntingford, The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704, (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 94
- ^ Balthazar Tellez, The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia, 1710 (LaVergue: Kessinger, 2010), p. 194
- ^ Grimes 1992:257
- ^ Aklilu Yilma, "Pilot Survey of Bilingualism in Yem" SILESR 2002-052, p. 3
- ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Vol. 1, part 1, Tables 2.11, 2.13 (accessed 30 December 2008)
- ^ "Census 2007", first draft, Table 5.
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