Shanqella
Amharic exonym for people with darker skin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shanqella (Amharic: ሻንቅላ šanqəlla sometimes spelled Shankella, Shangella, Shánkala, Shankalla or Shangalla) is an exonym for a number of Nilotic ethnic groups that lived in the westernmost part of Ethiopia, but are known to have also inhabited more northerly areas until the late nineteenth century.[1] A pejorative, the term was traditionally used by the local Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations to refer in general terms to darker-skinned ethnic groups, particularly to those from communities speaking Nilo-Saharan languages of Western Ethiopia. These were regarded as primitive people and slave reserves by the Abyssinians.[2][3]