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Yemsa language
Yemsa, formerly called Janjero, is an Omotic language of south-western Ethiopia, spoken by the Yem people in the hills east of the Omo river. It was the language of the Kingdom of Janjero, which was annexed to Menelik II's Ethiopian Empire in 1894. Many Yem now also speak Oromo or Amharic.
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