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, 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.
The Chara people speak their own
Chara language a member of the
Omotic Language group, which is
linguistically similar to
Mela and the numerically much larger
Wolaytta both of which many Chara also speak. (Se
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.
References
Ethnic groups in Ethiopia
Omotic-speaking peoples
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