| Qwara | |
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| Qwareña | |
| Spoken in | Ethiopia |
| Region | Amhara Region |
| Native speakers | 0 (date missing) |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
Qwara, or Qwareña (called "Falashan" in some older sources), is one of two Agaw dialects formerly spoken by a subgroup of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) of the Qwara area. It is a dialect of Qimant.
The language was on the decline in the early 20th century, as it was being slowly replaced by Amharic. During Operation Solomon, most of its remaining speakers were airlifted to Israel, where it continues to lose ground to Hebrew.
Several early Falashan manuscripts, using the Ge'ez alphabet, exist; in more recent times, the language has been recorded by several linguists and travellers, starting with Flad in 1866.
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