Rer Bare people
Template:Short description The Reer Barre (or Rer Shabelle) are a tribe in the Gedo region of the Ethiopia-Ogaden region on the Shabele River, near Somalia, who currently speak Somali. Historically farmers, a small number of Reer Barre are pastoralist, mostly keeping cows and goats and are usually residents of eastern cities of Ethiopia, such as Jijiga, Gode, Kelafo, Far-libah, Feerfeer, Mustahiil, along with more cities and towns in different parts of the Somali Regional state of Ethiopia. These tribes are unknown to the government of Ethiopia so far, regardless of the country's ethnic based federalism who has no stock of its ethnic group. They are a large family who also have a large population in the Shabelle region, Somalia. Reer means "family" and Barre is a name, altogether meaning "Barre family". They are descendants of Barre Abdille.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Language and origins
Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other Their unattested but apparently non-Somali language[1] seems to have been first mentioned in print by Lionel Bender in 1975:
Others have linked the Reer Barre to the Bantu language family, implying that they may be the remnants of a Bantu-speaking pre-Somali population or, like the "Somali Bantu" in the Jubba River valley of southern Somalia, the descendants of Bantu slaves imported from other parts of East Africa in the 19th century, but this one seems to be false. Tobias Hagmann refers to them as "Somalised Bantu".[2] According to Ulrich Braukämper:
A British hunter, Colonel Swayne, who visited Imi in February 1893, relates that he was the guest of Gabba Oboho, a chief of the Adona, for several days.[3]
Reer Shabeele clan is also divided into 9 sub-clans including Isse, Gasar, Ali Maad, Duube digil, Baajimaal Mohammed, Maadle Guuled, Dagiine Digil, Geedow Ahmed, Muddora'do.
References
Bibliography
- Bender, M. L. The Ethiopian Nilo-Saharans. Artistic Printers, Addis Ababa 1975.
External links
- Ahmed Yusuf Farah, United Nations Development Programme: Permanent Agricultural Settlements Along The Webi Shabelle River In Gode Zone Of The Ethiopian Somali National Regional State (1995) (PDF)
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- ↑ Hagmann, Tobias (2005): Template:Usurped, Briefing for Review of African Political Economy Vol. 32, No. 103, p. 5
- ↑ H. G. C. Swayne, "A Trip to Harar and Imé", Geographical Journal, 2 (September 1893), p. 251