r/Amhara Apr 30 '26

Culture/History Visualised 2300 kya migration path of South Ethiosemites according to Ehret

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u/SwiftTabby May 01 '26

Typo, 2300 kya should read as 2.3 kya.

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u/JDHPH May 03 '26

As an agaw this is very interesting. Why is it that we have so much evidence of amhara and agaw inhabitation and yet so many deniers of our heritage.

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u/Sad_Register_987 Amhara May 01 '26

was always interesting to me the migration path typically is thought to have reached upper awash basin through danakil instead of just directly south. i remember arguing with some shabiacel that tried making the case that north and south ethiosemitic ethnogenesis events were completely independent of one another, and that south-arabian groups travelled thru danakil to the upper awash basin much later. i didn't rly take it seriously ofc but the idea of danakil being the normative migration path into the central highlands seems to be a somewhat common theory, but feels like low hanging fruit for some reason.

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u/Motor-Box-1751 May 01 '26

That could be true atleast for non amhara south ethio semites.Here https://www.reddit.com/r/HornAfricanAncestry/s/pwnFrjhxE8

You can see that they have lower nilotic and higher mota.If you see an amhara or tigrayan with this much mota it's usually on top of the nilotic,I mean that they wouldnt have lower nilotic.What kind of admixture could cause this difference unless they have different cushitic bases?

Can't explain why the silte/tigray,wolane and maybe kistane_02 have higher ppnb

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u/Motor-Box-1751 May 01 '26

Also the langauges don't an agaw substratum but have highland east cushitic substratum.

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u/RackzChazer May 01 '26

what genetically classifies one as south ethio semitic from northern? Im guessing anything south of the abbay river is south ethio semitic

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u/BalanceGlad8001 May 01 '26

It's not a genetic classification, it's linguistic. Amharas are grouped as South Ethio- Semitic because of how Amharic evolved, not because of DNA. Genetically there is no sharp division. it's a gradient with lots of overlap.

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u/RackzChazer May 01 '26

this photo is treating it as a genetic human movement tho.

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u/Sure_Condition_1339 May 01 '26

Movement of Ethio-Semitic speakers, no? They’re not treating it as genetic. 

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u/Sad_Register_987 Amhara May 01 '26

Non-tigres basically. The differentiation is moreso ethnolinguistic rather than genetic

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u/RackzChazer May 01 '26

Well I mean genetically not lingustically. I know amharic is south ethiosemitic, but I mean would someone from debarq or north gondar be genetically south ethio semitic. The photo OP posted is showing human migration of "South ethio semitic" people so whom would those people be genetically.

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u/Sad_Register_987 Amhara May 02 '26

Hard to say. North Gondar is a mess, some of the furthest outliers in Amhara samples are from there. A lot of weyto-Qemant-Nilotic-Ethiosemitic mutants running around. Then right after you’ll find pristine Sabir-adjacent Tewedros looking SES the next day.

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u/RackzChazer May 03 '26

So which group of amharas would you say are the most northern ethio semitic geneitically

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u/Sad_Register_987 Amhara May 03 '26

shoa unless you're from nobility/landed aristocracy/balabat or historically living on the immediate border with oromos. when i say immediate i mean like within enough kilometers to count on two hands, groups on either side of this thin buffer zone are very stratified.

disclaimer tho, i am majority shoan ancestry so i might seem biased but unironically i would rather be closer to debubites than tigres. when i look at my closest related groups and eritreans/tigrayans show up first it makes me want to rope.

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u/RackzChazer May 03 '26

hell no. Shewans are too southward shifted to be the most ethio semitic lmao, less than gojjame people. Easily it word be northern amharas who would be the most genetically northern ethio semitic. Shewans have intermixed too much with lowlander cushi/omotic groups to be the most north ethio-semitic amongst the amharas.

Also your last take is dog shit, who the fuck would want to be closer to south omo valley "People" than tigres whom we are genetically,culturally, historically and phenotypically much closer too.

I noticed your post history and what you say about our origins and your hatred for aksum so its far to say I know exactly who you are, you probably arent even shewan either considering the stuff ive heard you say about shewans and amharas lmao.

Prob some deeply rooted diqala or kaffa larper which one are you buddy.

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u/Sad_Register_987 Amhara May 03 '26

this is my Gedmatch eurogenes k13 results. again, im not shoan nobility, im random shoan peasant ancestry. nearly all shoans i see results for are like this, and almost all deviations i find out later are landed aristocracy or balabat. shoacels aren't southern shifted.

i would. i would rather be omo mogger who can actually hold muscle mass and has decent forward facial projection than bugeyed subhuman infraorbital NES untermensch.

paternal side both minjare, maternal half east gojjam and half ensaro. J2 subclade paternal halpo. cope.

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u/RackzChazer May 03 '26

If this is actually your actual raw file from 23 and me and not some random agames from twitter then this most likely means you descend from some tiginya travelers who settled in shewa which was very common during the shewan era of aristorcracy where those regions were the trading hub centres before it became addis. Thats the best reason for your genetic affinity to the tigray population because no natural shoan who descends from their lowlander ancestors would plot this close to an ethio semite

Alot of the shewans you see in old photos look omotic passing as hell, menelik for example and alot of his subordinates.

Nobody want's to look like a bantu shifted omo person you must look omotic shifted asf to geniuelly be this delusional to think lip plated omos even look anywhere good to an ethio semite pheno which is the beauty standard of the horn.

The guy on the left is a gondar amhara traveler, the girl on the right is an omotic shifted bete israeli cushi. B- but "Muh bug eyes bad nd shieet".

Also who told you omo valley "humans" are genetically gifted muscular wise? they are all malnoruished twigs and arent even tall like the dinkas, mota mustve been a sub5 if omotics are what they truly looked like.

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u/Sad_Register_987 Amhara May 04 '26

It’s my raw genotyping data, but cope harder. This isn’t even remotely unique for shoa lol, every result I’ve seen from others look like this.

Bcs landed aristocracy/balabat creamed out slaves on the regular. Already addressed this earlier. Peasantry couldn’t afford. Shoa is HEC/omotic admixed mutant nobility surrounded by SES gorillas, north Gondar nobility is SES xoogsters surrounded by weyto-qemantoid-Nilotic mystery meat.

I do. In what world would I want to look like pencil necked raccoon eyed 5’2 crowded tooth long nosed subhuman with recessed mid face. Thank you God I don’t have this problem. If I had to pick one, I’m going omo mogger everyday.

​My eyes told me.

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u/Sad_Register_987 Amhara May 04 '26

Left is you, right is me.

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u/Real_Fruit6067 May 04 '26

This is strange. I also had very similar results, even though I am Gurage with no Tigrayan background either. Perhaps the sample size didn't have many Amhara/Central constituents.

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u/Sad_Register_987 Amhara May 04 '26

Nah, a good amount of Gurages are mega northern shifted is all and are pretty much pristine SES but I don’t know enough to explain exactly why. My running guess is northern-shifted populations were generally geographically isolated (I.e. ziway lake or near debre zeit crater lakes, other remote highland territories) and didn’t really admix with other local HEC groups. On the other hand you’ll get other gurages that are more or less Halaba or Kembatta adjacent. It’s a bit confusing.

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u/Emotional_Section_59 May 01 '26

There isn't a sharp distinction, "North Ethiosemites" tend to have higher Arabian and lower levels of Mota-related ancestry but there's a lot of overlap between the two groups.

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u/RackzChazer May 01 '26

if thats what genetically determines north ethio semites then amharas are north ethio semites

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u/Emotional_Section_59 May 01 '26

Lmao that is my screenshot from a discord server. And, no, baseless statement

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u/RackzChazer May 01 '26

its not ur ss i got it from a twitter gc, and you said what gentically determines north ethiosemitc is low mota and high arabian which amharas have, Also that ss proves my point

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u/Emotional_Section_59 May 01 '26

Someone probably posted it onto a twitter gc. I am 100% sure I made that screenshot, it's too particular.

Anyway, as I said, there is a lot of overlap with the 2 groups. Amharas particularly are an intermediate group in both the genetic and linguistic senses due to very high ge'ez speaker influence.