Tsamai people

The Tsamay, also Tsemai, Tsamai, Tsemay; are an ethnic group in southwestern Ethiopia. They speak the language Tsamay that belongs to Dullay subgroup of Ostkuschitischen language family and is related to Bussa and Gawwada.

According to the census of Ethiopia in the year 1998 9.702 Tsamay live in Ethiopia. Your language is spoken by 8,621 people, including 5,298 from the only language. For the trade, many Tsamay the Konso language use.

Most Tsamay live in the Woreda Hamer -Banna in the Debub Omo Zone of the administrative region of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples, and in the lower Omo Valley and west of the woreda Konso. Many Tsamay live in the city Weyto which is about 50 kilometers away from the town of Jinka.

Your livelihood is the cultivation of cereals and livestock. Many Tsamay women wear leather clothes, and most Tsamay men always have a small stool with you in case they need to sit down. Few Tsamay can read and write: less than one percent in their mother tongue and 2.8 percent in their first foreign language. As the area of Tsamay is frequently visited by adventurers, they are often photographed.