The Chara, also known as the Tsara are a people group of Ethiopia. They form a part of the Gimira peoples of Ethiopia and live in the Kaffa Highlands,Chara at hornof Africa.org. and the Debub Omo area.
Their three main villages are Geba a meša, Buna Anta, and Kumba, Ethiopia and they practise subsistence farming and hold to a syncretic religion of Oriental Orthodox Christianity with tribal practices.Yilma, Aklilu 2002 Sociolinguistic survey report on the Chara language of Ethiopia. The Chara people speak their own Chara language a member of the Omotic Language group, Ethiopian languages. Switch-reference and Omotic-Cushitic language contact in Southwest Ethiopia, Journal of Language Contact 5 (2012) 80. which is linguistically similar to Mela Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Chara, Dime, Melo, and Nayi Languages of Ethiopia . and the numerically much larger Wolaytta ethnologue Africa.Yilma, Aklilu (1995), "Some notes on the Chara language: Sound system and noun morphology", S.L.L.E. linguistic reports 32: 2-12. both of which many Chara also speak.Chara language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) (See Ethiopian language map).
The number of Chara have been decimated due to slavery and war and are estimated to number between 16,500 and 6,984 (1994 census) Ethiopia at Country Guides and Profiles. people.
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