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Sidamo|sɪˈdɑːməʊ|
Also Sidama, Sydama.
[Native name.]
A group of Cushitic-speaking peoples in southwestern Ethiopia; a member of one of these peoples. Also, the language of these peoples. Also attrib. or as adj.
1834S. Gobat Jrnl. Three Years' Residence in Abyssinia ii. 166 A month's journey to the w.s.w. of Shoa he had found a little Christian empire, who have a particular language, called Sidama, and books. Ibid. iv. 305 Kidam Mariam had with him a slave..of Sidama... He said that the Sidamas are Christians. 1868J. C. Hotten Abyssinia & its People ii. v. 200 Kaffa is a wealthy and fertile kingdom; the inhabitants are proud and handsome... They still retain a recollection and traces of the Christian faith... The Gallas, with whom they are incessantly at war, call them, in derision, ‘Sydama’, originally signifying Christian. 1910Encycl. Brit. XII. 894/1 Similar dialects are those of the Sid(d)àma tribes, south of Abyssinia. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Language 366 Mixed with Ethiopic-speakers are the Agaw dialects..; and in the south-west are the Sidama (Gudella, Kaffa, Kullo-Walamo, Bambala, etc.). 1972Bk. of Thousand Tongues (ed. 2) 392/2 Sidamo is spoken by an estimated 100,000 people in highland areas north and east of Lake Abaya, southwestern Ethiopia. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 1013/1 Those Galla and Sidamo who retain their traditional cosmologies..are more firmly anchored in the present. |