Aari people of Ethiopia

[Pastoralite]

What are their origins?

 

[Grant]

Are they a mix of nilotic and omotic?

Mota man is described as being most similar to the Ari. Mota was E1b1a2 and was dated to 4,500 years ago.

http://www.latimes.com/science/scie...ent-ethiopian-dna-eurasia-20151008-story.html

https://exploring-africa.blogspot.com/2013/05/What-Ethiopian-Genetic-diversity-Actually-Reveals.html

"Coupling the above-mentioned qualities with the fact that the Ari Cultivator samples report a higher heterozgyosity value than the Ari Blacksmith and said Nilotic groups, and that in essentially every case of a study into the pairwise Fst estimation with other groups—including the Semitic-Cushitic block, the Ari Cultivator samples produced relatively lower values than the Ari Blacksmith samples, raises the prospect of the Ari Cultivator gene pool serving as potential example of an ancestral east African gene pool; the smaller Fst values with the Semitic-Cushitic block, despite its greater geographical distance with this block than the Ari Blacksmith samples, may speak to the possibility of the Cultivator sample serving as a surviving remnant of an eastern African gene pool that may be ancestral to the Semitic-Cushitic block."

Want to hear @Apollo 's comments on an "eastern African gene pool".

 

[The alchemist]

Ari Blacksmith and Cultivator comparison

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

I’m very fascinated by the omotics I would love to meet one

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

@xabashi what can you tell me about the omotics?

 

[Marshall D Abdi]

I’m very curious about them

Imagine its only somalis who have 0 blood of them

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

Imagine its only somalis who have 0 blood of them

Yea bc they live in Ethiopia and its mainly ethnic groups in Ethiopia that have their ancestry

 

[Juke]

Mengistu Haile Mariam's people

 

[Apollo]

Not all Omotic speakers look the same. The Shinasha and Shekkacho are Omotic speakers and they look pretty much the same as Oromos and Sidamas. Only South Omotic speakers look very different from other Ethiopians.

 

[xabashi]

@xabashi what can you tell me about the omotics?

I will be honest, I've never heard that there is a tribe called Ari in Ethiopia. From all the 80 or so ethnic groups, the majority of Ethiopians know may be 10 or 12. The others are also so small in numbers like 90% of them are less than 1 million in numbers. So, I can't tell you more about them. I am just fascinated by them like you.