Gafat people
Extinct ethnic group of Ethiopia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gafat people (Amharic: ጋፋት) are an extinct ethnic group that once inhabited present day western Ethiopia.[1] 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 Alleqa Taye, in the year 1922 Gafat was only spoken privately in Gojjam due to the Amhara designating them outcasts.[2]
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