Gafat people

Gafat
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Gafat
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Pagan, Christianity?

The Gafat people (Amharic: ጋፋት) are an extinct ethnic group that were once inhabited along the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, and later, pushed south of Gojjam in what is now East Welega Zone. They spoke the Gafat language, an extinct South Ethiopic grouping within the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic languages and closely related to Harari and Eastern Gurage languages. According to Alaqa Taye, in the year 1922 Gafat was only spoken privately in Gojjam due to the Amhara designating them outcasts.

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