WIKIPEDIA SAID ABOUT QIMANT
Qimant is the original language of the
Qemant people of
Semien Gondar Zone and
Ethiopia.
Although the ethnic population of the Qemant was 172,327 at the 1994
census, only a very small fraction of these speak the language nowadays.
All speakers live either in
Chilga woreda or in
Lay Armachiho woreda.
The number of first-language speakers is 1625, the number of second language speakers 3450.
All speakers of the language are older than 30 years, and more than 75% are older than 50 years.
The language is no longer passed on to the next generation of speakers. Most ethnic Qemant people speak
Amharic. Qimant is not spoken in public or even at house as a means of day communication any more, but is reduced to a secret code.
Questions:
1. Are we only 172,327???
2. Are we only lived in Chilga and Lay Armachiho???
3. why the language is not spoken in public????
As per my experience our people are highly populated over the following wordas
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