Saho people

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The Saho people are a Cushitic-speaking ethnic group of the Horn of Africa, traditionally pastoralist and predominantly Muslim, living mainly in Eritrea and adjacent parts of Ethiopia.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Saho people canonical 7
Sidama people 2
Saho people in Eritrea 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cushitic peoples
ethnic group
associatedCountryLanguagePolicy Eritrea
autonymLanguage Saho
climateZone semi-arid
continent Africa
country Eritrea
Ethiopia
ethnicGroupOf Horn of Africa
ethnonym Saho
historicalRegion Medri Bahri area
languageBranch Cushitic
surface form: Lowland East Cushitic languages
languageFamily Cushitic
surface form: Cushitic languages
languageSpoken Saho language
livelihood herding livestock
small-scale farming
majorityReligionInEritrea Islam
marriagePattern endogamy and exogamy depending on clan
minorityStatus ethnic minority in Ethiopia
neighboringPeoples Afar people
Beja people
Tigre people
Tigray-Tigrinya people
surface form: Tigrinya people
oralTradition strong
partOf Cushitic-speaking populations
pastoralAnimalsHerded camels
cattle
goats
sheep
primaryLocation Eritrea
region Northern Red Sea Region
Debub Region
surface form: Southern Region (Debub)

Tigray region
surface form: Tigray Region
religion Islam
religionBranch Sunni Islam
religiousFestivalsObserved Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Fitr
religiousInstitution mosque
ritualSpecialists Islamic scholars (ulama)
secondaryLocation Ethiopia
socialOrganization clan-based
subgroupOf Afroasiatic peoples
traditionalEconomy agro-pastoralism
traditionalLifestyle pastoralism
traditionalReligionBeforeIslam indigenous African beliefs
writingSystemUsed Geʽez script
Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

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

Eritrea majorEthnicGroup Saho people
Sidamo spokenBy Saho people
this entity surface form: Sidama people
Sidamo ethnicGroupAssociated Saho people
this entity surface form: Sidama people
Saho spokenBy Saho people
Saho usedByEthnicGroup Saho people
Tigre people relatedEthnicGroup Saho people
Kunama people neighboringGroups Saho people
Eritrean nationalism associatedWithEthnicGroup Saho people
this entity surface form: Saho people in Eritrea
Qafar relatedEthnicGroup Saho people