Amarar (or Amenreer Wagerda’ Amarer) is a nomadic tribe of the Beja people inhabiting the mountainous country to the west of the Red Sea, Suakin northwards, and Eritrea towards Sudan. Between them and the Nile are the Ababda and Bisharin Beja tribes and to their south dwell the Hadendoa (another Beja subgroup).[1] The country of the Amarar is called the Atbai. Their main location is in the Ariab region. The tribe is divided into four great families: (1) Weled Gwilei, (2) Weled Aliab, (3) Weled Kurbab Wagadab, and (4) the Amarar proper of the Ariab district. They are said to be of Quraysh blood through Ammar Aqiili and to be the descendants of an invading Arab army.[2] The Amarar speak a form of the Beja language that uses fewer loanwords than other groups that speak Beja.[3]
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
 Sudan and  Eritrea | |
| Languages | |
| Beja (Bidhaawyeet) | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Beja |
References
edit- ^ Burckhardt, John Lewis (1819). Travels in Nubia: by the late John Lewis Burckhardt. Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Amarar". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 781. This cites:
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905)
- Sir F. R. Wingate, Mahdism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891)
- A. H. Keane, Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (London, 1884).
- ^ Bryan, M. A (2018). Practical orthography of African languages; Orthographe pratique des langues Africaines; The distribution of the Semitic and Cushitic languages of Africa; Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic languages of Africa and linguistic analyses. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 978-1-351-60137-5. OCLC 1004960798.
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