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Amhara people
The Amhara people ((アムハラ語:አማራ), ''Āmara'';〔Following the BGN/PCGN romanization employed for Amharic geographic names in British and American English.〕 , ''ʾÄməḥära'') are an ethnic group inhabiting the northern and central highlands of Ethiopia, particularly the Amhara Region.〔 According to the 2007 national census, they numbered 19,867,817 individuals, comprising 26.9% of the country's population. They speak Amharic, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Semitic branch, and are one of the Habesha peoples.
==Etymology==
The present name for the Amharic language and its speakers comes from the medieval province of Amhara. The latter enclave was located around Lake Tana at the headwaters of the Blue Nile, and included a slightly larger area than Ethiopia's present-day Amhara Region.
The further derivation of the name is debated. Some trace it to ''amari'' ("pleasing; beautiful; gracious") or ''mehare'' ("gracious"). The Ethiopian historian Getachew Mekonnen Hasen traces it to an ethnic name related to the Himyarites of ancient Yemen.〔Getachew Mekonnen Hasen. ''Wollo, Yager Dibab'', p. 11. Nigd Matemiya Bet (Addis Ababa), 1992.〕 Still others say that it derives from Ge'ez (''ʿam'', "people") and (''h.ara'', "free" or "soldier"), although this has been dismissed by scholars such as Donald Levine as a folk etymology.〔Uhlig, Siegbert, ed. "Amhara" in ''Encyclopaedia Aethiopica'', p. 230. Harrassowitz Verlag (Wiesbaden), 2003.〕
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