Gafat people

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The Gafat people are an extinct ethnic group from Ethiopia historically known for speaking the now-extinct Gafat language, a member of the South Ethiopic branch of the Semitic language family.

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Gafat people canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
continent Africa
country Ethiopia
culturalArea Ethiopian Highlands
documentedBy linguists of the 19th century
ethnicGroupOf Ethiopia
ethnicIdentity Semitic-speaking Ethiopians
ethnicStatusInEthiopia minority group
ethnoLinguisticStatus extinct ethnic group
language shift to Amharic
historicalLanguage Gafat language
historicalPeriod early modern Ethiopia
medieval Ethiopia
language Gafat language
languageFamilyOfSpokenLanguage Afroasiatic languages
languageShiftTo Amharic language
linked to: Amharic
languageStatus Gafat language extinct
linguisticFamily Semitic languages
linguisticSubbranch South Ethiopic languages
linked to: South Ethiopic
notableFor being an extinct Semitic-speaking group in Ethiopia
speaking the Gafat language
region Horn of Africa
relatedEthnicGroups Amhara people
Gurage peoples
linked to: Gurage people

Harari people
religion Christianity
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
spokeMemberOf South Ethiopic branch of Semitic
status extinct

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gafat language spokenBy Gafat people
Gafat spokenBy Gafat people
Gafatigna spokenBy Gafat people