Bilingualism is not Merely Bilingualism
Language is a unique tool that human beings invented, developed, evolved, and fine-tuned to communicate the fruit of their history with their own fellow species. It is the sum of the whole that identifies their cultural, mental-spiritual, sociopolitical, economic and physiological phenomenon of all people rests up on it and their place in this blue planet. Language is the alpha and the omega of human civilizations. As the software functions in computer, so does language in human interactions and human civilizations.
A Computer (hard ware) without software is non-functional, or is an assemblage metal gadgets, so does human without language and culture is nothing but a bipedal creature. That is why that it is essential to bear in mind that all colonialist waged wars on language, culture and history. All in one to wipe out the ingeniousness and come to conclude as “the people without history.”
As genuine scholars unanimously argue that “no greater injustice can be committed against a people than to deprive them of their own language.” Since the arrival of the nomadic south western Arabian tribes who prefer to call themselves Habeshas waged cataclysmic wars of wipe out of the indigenous languages, cultures, and to erase their history from their memory.
They attempted to supplant with third hand imported and adopted Hebrew myth of Byzantine Empire. Once they consolidate and control political power under their clans Warlords and Outlaws they began committing cultural genocides on the people of north-eastern Africa’s within whom they settled and found home.
They deployed what was called the Amharic language, a creole and the youngest to Tigrinya and Tigre language which were considered the direct descendant of Geez. What was called Geez by itself is again a pidgin language. It was thought to be spoken between 400 and 900 AD in Tigre-Aksum, and spread during the warlord and the outlaw named Ezana, who was converted to “Christianity” and used it as the major tool of conquest, occupy, evict the indigenous folks of the region, the Agew, Beejja, Saa’oo. Kush, Nubia, etc.
The assertion that the Amharic language, particularly within the context of the Neftegna settler-colonial project, functioned as a weapon of ethnocide is a powerful and deeply felt charge. Far from being a neutral medium of communication, it is argued that Amharic was systematically enforced as the sole official and educational language, leading to the marginalization, suppression, and eventual erosion of countless indigenous African languages across regions subjected to imperial expansion. This aggressive linguistic imposition, often backed by military and administrative might, was not about fostering genuine bilingualism or linguistic diversity, but rather about enforced assimilation and the destruction of distinct cultural identities.
To mischaracterize this history as merely promoting bilingualism fundamentally ignores the coercive power dynamics and the profound trauma inflicted upon communities whose languages, oral traditions, and unique worldviews were systematically undermined, effectively contributing to the ethnocide of diverse peoples under the guise of national unity or progress.He committed genocides and ethoncides (cultural genocides) for about three decades of tyranny and spread in his empire known as the Aksum Empire. He claimed: “Ezana, King of Aksum and of Himyar and Raydan and of Ethiopia (west from Aksum). For more see ETHIOMANIA: THE HOOLIGANS WITHIN OROMIA: PUTTING KNIFE ON YOUR THROATS Part II of https/oromolands.blogspot.com/ or http://www.bilisummaa.com/
From here departs the role of the church and their Debtras (illiterate, arrogant, chauvinist “Priests”) to wash their hand in it and that holds true to the very date. They called their creole settler’s language Ge’ez (dead) and its Amharic derivation crowned it as “lingua sacra,” without a shame. That must be called “lingua accinctum nostrum,” the language of divers and invaders.
The fact is Geez by itself is pidgin language whose substratum was a gathering of all native languages of Cushitic families like Agew, Beeja, Saho, etc, and Greek and South West Arabian languages called Semitic known as lingua franca at that specific period of time and place.
The utility of Amharic as a full-fledged tool is indeed, a very recent phenomena out of Habesha proper, a post so called “Zemene mesafint” translated as the “era of princess” a misnomer by itself that must be called “the Era of Vikings” or most priceless the era of “Shiftiandom” butchery of two deep rooted rival groups of Tigre -Aksum in the north and Gonder-in the south within Habesha proper..
It was known that Kasa, from Qawra (Amhara) who crowned himself as Tewodros II (1855-1868) after wiping out all his rivals at the region. He was known as Namaa Nyaata, means Cannibalist by the Oromo people that indicates his brute –sub-human-behavior, who chopped heads, hands and legs, killed by hanging, throwing human down from the hilltops, massacred them burned houses and looted all what comes on his wild-bipedal killer dogs “Militias” way the Oromos who resisted and stood firm against his fascistic acts.
The survivors from his brute were forced to proselytizations in mass renamed or to flight. Through eviction he further began to resettle his alien gun-carriers called the Naftanyaa Safari that turned to the recipe of all settler tyrant’s who catapulted to the political power an followed his footsteps. They all and instigated an wedged relentless wars toward the south to Habesha proper. War an resettlement of the aliens of the north on occupied territory that has exponentially increased from one to the next generations turned their art of life an that holds true to the very date.
Another Kasa ,renamed to Yohans IV (1872-1889) of Tigray following the foot step of Tewdros and finally Sahle Mariam, renamed to Menelik II (1866–89) who was left to the only beneficiary of all European colonizers while both Kassa’s were killed .
As a result Menlik was turend to the esatblished of the Empire as she has been known as the prison house, where over eighty ethno-nations have been incarcerated .He established a predatory-prey relationships between the primitive Habesha settlers as they prefer to call themselves or the European equable term Abyssinia (Amhara and Tigre mainly) as she has been known on the paper now.
To understand this point “Empire,” we must keep in mind and ferret out the essential feature of the nature of the Habesha’s and the empire they established. Although the departing points and the major goals of all empires known in human history were basically territorial acquisition and exploitation of natural and human resources of the terra they occupied and the colonies they established through violence; waged cataclysmic wars in one hand and their ideological-jingoism: ”civilization missioners, superior in this and in that, elected race to rule, etc.” The Ideological-Jingoism has been used as a dangerous tool, a silent–killer targeted to wiping out, and assimilate the survivors of their colonies, to justify it as “terra-nullius,” for eternal exploitation of rich resources and cheap labors to develop their mother countries.
But empires are not merely empires, if one not only sees the over cover, or the coat, but dig deep inside to the root. There are two forms of the establishments of known Empires. The Overseas-Oceans or Outer empires and the Inland or Internal Empires. Overseas or outer European Empires do differ with inland or internal colonization’s in premise they moved and in their ultimate goals.
For instance, The British Empire. What was called the United Kingdom by itself come out as a result of long-lasting inland or internal colonization’s of the conquest of the people of Wales, Ireland, and eventuality Scotland. The establishments of overseas colonies by the British began by occupying North America in the last quarter of the 16th century that stretched to all inhabitable continents till its death and dismantled, decolonized and liberated free sates were reborn in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Most of empires known in history owe, home grown civilizations, systems, regularly trained and State paid armies, navies, etc., and produced their own firearms, finances, have public schools, colleges and universities etc., but the settler colonial empire of Abyssinian is unique in its all forms. Coming out of a century of barbarism, butchering each other the primitive and barbaric nomadic warlords who owed no houses to live in, beg for bread, let alone to have a regular army and navy or finance etc.
“Thanks to the resources greedy European colonizers and genociders unreserved supports with all necessary tools, firearms, trainings to kill in competing to boost up their sphere of influence on the killer-Habesha warlords that shifted the paradigm and gave an opportunity to wage wars of eliminations conquered, occupied and resettled with Habesha colonies that turned her the burden and the prison house of the whole south to the very date the Abyssinia or Habesha Empire, the artificial bone known yet as “Quasi– Ethiopia State” on paper.
The Naftaynaas( settler colonials) or safaris moved with premise of wiping out, uprooting the indigenousness as a whole by weapons and training provided by Europeans who waged relentless wars in an attempt to usurp indigenous lands, uproot sociopolitical, economic, cultural, spiritual matrix, native knowledge’s, world view, absolutely prohibited practices of their own home grown, developed values, norms and taboos of their inherited ancestral social fabrics in all spheres of their life in day light.
When one speaks of Abyssinia, it is a must, to keep in mind, as a rule of thumb and deploy it, what pioneer sacred experts, who devoted their academic life, wrote books thought us who finally ferret out what exactly was the essential feature of the nature of the Habesha or Abyssinia Empire that was established in the last quarter of the 19th century in the image of the European colonizers.
Sacred scholars found out that the settler Abyssinian empire codified her with many self-explanatory terms such as “A Pawn of European colonizers”, “A right hand extensions of western colonization” , “a burden of white people” a burden of black people, etc.,” To put it all in one, she was dependent and still is on foreigners for here establishments, maintenance and survival in one Hand, and preying on the whole south that makes five to six time larger, prosperous as to Abyssinia proper on the other Hand. These facts hold true since her establishments to the current that we did not get rid of her yet.
What was unique in Amharic; settlers-colonial language when compared to other colonial languages of the Europeans in Africa was that Menelik himself and his loyal servants, under dogs were illiterate in their own pidgin alphabet and language. None can read and write, late alone to teach or transmit to the territory under occupations. In general the Naftanyaas were a collection of illiterate, arrogant barbaric, primitive bipeds wandering nomads who carried guns provide by Europeans know nothing except killing, looting, and eating raw, and sub-human acts like a wild beast that holds true to the very hour.
In folk’s word, they were signified as bipedal plagues, barbaric human like creatures who do not let the grass grow under their feet, but a tree, what a tree, a Eucalyptus. As result the empire turned to the prison house of nations, gruesomely incarcerated within her artificial demarcation, and bonding’s as she manifests on paper yet. Thus the language of settlers stayed an stays the language of the settlers spoken only in settled military garrisons let alone to talk about education meant “schools” where there was no institutions of any sort, but banditry or Gfaol system (predatory-prey life) throughout.
As a rule of thumb if one departs from what meant history, and history is a science and must be a science it is interrogative and investigative, then the “Ethiopia as a nation” and “Amharic as national language” are indeed, nothing but a blasted lies based on fairy tales, myths and imported legends that one can pack them all in one and throw it in garbage without regrets and hesitation. One loses nothing but headache, migraine, stomachache etc. I have no doubt that will turn to a piece of bone stucked in throat for assimilate Habesha-phonies who operates under the mask of “One Ethiopia” and the offspring’s of the Nafatanyaas reproduced in Oromia or else-where.
There is no nation per se know by the name “Ethiopia” in history, and without nation, what was called national language does not exist. For more see ETHIOMANIA: THE HOOLIGANS WITHIN OROMIA: PUTTING KNIFE ON YOUR THROATS at http://www.bilisummaa.com or https://oromolands.blogspot.com
Even more ludicrous is when one come across that designated the settler language as lingua franca and comes across figured fake statistics of their language to make it more palatable for those who did not really know who exactly who the Habeshas are, the blasted liars who took it through their maternal colostrum as the Oromo’s says.
First there was no constitution of any sort in the barbaric empire since her establishment at the last quarter of the 19th century let alone to talk about “Amharic-as National Languagee, Lingua sacra.” An infection that begins and as a communication vehicle and infrastructure to transfect their language to board mass of the populations which the pitch black monster Menelik and his followers claimed the empire they rule
The first constitution in written from was the plagiarized document of Emperor Meiji of Japan Empire on face value translated into Amharic, a creole, settler language by Tefere Mekonnen dated 16th July, the self-denaier, and the treason who fled to Britain on Saturday, May 2 1936, three days before the Italians occupied Finfinnee to save his neck attest to himself without a shame “the Conqueror of the lion of Judah and the King of King elected by God “The king of King the tribe of the Lion of Judah”. Britain brought him back to Finfinnee in the wake of Allied victory of the Second World War, who kicked out Italia in 1941 and put him on the “Throne” after five years in exile. One can call this paper “Japanized-Nefatanyaa- constitution” if one is indeed brave to call it institution at all in the Terra of absolute total illiterates. As folks word “in the lands of the blind, the one–eyed man is king.
Tefere Mekonnen followed the foot steeps of his predecessors use Amharic as his “official” language, deployed and employed as a major tool of segregation, repression, assimilation, exploitation, balkanization of the whole south and scrambling like a pieces of cakes to his loyal warlords and the establishments Feudal-serf, slave relationships with his empire. He imposed it by subjugating cursing, deviling the language and the culture of the whole south that was and still diametrically antagonistic in its all form and values by nature. The gulf between the creole language, based on third hand imported Zionist myth embedded in the culture and the Gafol–system (predatory–prey) system of Habesha proper was brought and injected by the Abyssinian settler colonialist. .
All settler colonialists, (the Naftanyaas) exploited the differences for their benefits and as means of assimilation that suit the settler colonialists dream as a standards of Absolute fact and executed by all means they can. They relentlessly used the myth as a license to beg the foreigners for all sorts of helps, where Firearms and Finance ranks in first line to maintain their myth and its status quo as she is known yet and to justify the crimes they committed throughout the interactions of the Abyssinian tyrants, their settlers killer-dogs, militias, gruesome-of subhuman-acts like wild beast against the whole people of the south. If one move out of Finfinnee within Oromia as a whole one hears it rarely and indeed no one needed it at all, after all it comes to serve, to exploit their resources, and to denigrate subjugate and to erase their identity.
Our heroes and heroines saved Afaan Oromoo alive from one to the next generation in charge. Our heroes and heroines knew from the very begging and the coming of the settlers not only as a physical burden, even worst to erase their language, culture, history, Oromoness (Orommuumaa) as a whole under the hidden curricula clad under the garb of “Civilization torch.”
Although very few Oromo’s went through the curricula of “Amharaization” the settlers transfection that means injection of the foreign product “Amharic” language in the Oromo mind, to the whole system of assimilation’s with its all ingredients, culture, history, civilizations, word view, etc., into the mind of the colonized, here began the experiment, and the efficiency or the success of the experimental bipedal human.
The main goal of the experiment is to inject the new product so that the assimilate goes through mental suicides from within himself as a result of erasing his identity and supplanting the new through the process of brain draining and permanent transformations to be a good new product at the end. The perfect assimilate is baptized, a palace reserved from him in heaven, renamed and prepared to go to hell on earth and ready to fight until his last birth, and that is the alpha and the omega of the promised goal of the colonizer assimilation’s program.
The assimilates out of Habesha curricula and the convertants deadly believes that he/she is more “civilized, knower’s, modern, patriot, pompous naming and titles without limit usurper, a betrayal, the worst beast from within his own people. In case of Oromo assimilates Afaan Oromoo, the language of the Oromo people that of their own ancestors for whom generations scarified their life and kept it alive and inherited is totally erased or buried deep in the dark that led him/her to self-rejection, as a result he /she turned to the perfect assimilate ready to give his/her neck to his master as eater Lamb. “A bad child bits his mother nipples.”
The paradox of assimilates in Oromo case is unique, while most parents proudly rejected the “Amharaization means assimilation by all means they can and told in courage in Oromo language “Yoo gurra ana murtee yuu minaa-minno kee hindhaga’uu.” When translated literally, it means, even if you cut my ear, I can or will not want to listen to your Naftanyaa “pidgin” language.” The metaphoric expression of even if you cut my ears means indeed even if my ear is deafened or my ears turned deaf. A resolute expression, proudness that indeed proves a sign of total rejections of the settler “pidgin-Amharic” language whose goal is to eras Oromummaa, and nothing more or less. Indeed it committed cultural genocide attempted to supplant by itself by erasing from the mind and the memory of the Oromo people and they targeted and to produce a perfect assimilate to the extent it can.
It in deed produced some perfect assimilates, remodeled them to extent that infection deeply reached the point to believe that he or she is “civilized, modern, knower” as his or her own folk in imitating, quoting his masters word. The perfect assimilate internal suicide that turns to begin in cursing, and deviling Afaan Oromoo, his own mother tongue. The Oromo’s often express the first tongue as Afaan Aabaa fi Hadhaa ykn Harmee koo that means the language of my father and my mother in more precisely fashion.
The intelligence of settler brain drainers is that the assimilate is awarded for his /her endeavor unique names such as “Our hero! Our Messiah! Our Patriot!” who come to save our beloved one and the only one country, the paragon of all civilizations etc., so far, he/she is a loyal servant of his master, These words ignites the adrenalin level high and boosts his preparedness to sacrifice his life for it. Once he was gone he will be erased from the history or remembered in one sentence in a way that suit the system. OUR BELOVED SEREVAT HAS LEFT US! GOD BLESS HIS SOUL IN HEAVEN!HE LIVEDIN HELL ON EARTH!!
Settler colonialism indeed creates the pseudo-patriotism of the colonized in various levels, from bottom to the tip of the pyramid of his assimilates from within the establishments. He /She who turned his back to his people and has no pardon. He imposes the very language that cursed, deviled and constitutionally arrested his own language as irrelevant attempts to discard it and impose his master’s language as he was trained as “prime, civilized, patriotic, unique etc., and consider it as his “national language”
In case of Oromos, physically, such as Gooban Daaccee from and within the Oromo’s who served his master Sahle Maryam or “Menelik II” as loyal servant once his masters were satisfied with his duties finally killed like a rat by poisoning. Other, alikes who followed Gooban’s footsteps who served a series of Abyssinian ruling Shiftas throughout her survival and maintains of her status quo of the empire intact to the very date at the end were also killed like a rabid dog by bullet, or hanged like a boot of wildcats.
Virtually Naftanyaas and their assimilates do not know what shame and disgrace are so far their stomach that controls their brain is fully packed. In folk’s word, they were designated as bipedal plagues, barbaric human like creatures collections of illiterate, arrogant barbaric, primitive bipeds wandering nomads who carried guns who do not let the grass grow under their feet, but a tree, what a tree, a Eucalyptus. They know nothing except killing, looting, and eating raw, and sub-human acts like a wild beast that holds true to the present.
Afaan Oromoo (Oromo Language) is the alpha and the Omega of the Oromo nation for whom the heroes and heroines scarified and sacrifices their life since the day of colonization and occupations of their ancestral soil to the very minute against the aliens of the norther settlers, the Naftanyaas. These are series of gangs who committed genocides, slave entrepreneurs, looters and devil monstrous and the offspring’s of diver’s invader’s. By nature they are back ward, barbarian, lazy-horses who know nothing except killing, rapes, looting and preying on the resources and the labors of the whole south.
We must question who is making a decision on whom, whose socio-political, economic, political and ideological dominancy is selected to be safeguarded, where, how, and why do the offspring’s of divers invaders of the settler yet dream, vocal, pompous, arrogant and plead to bring back their monsters from their grave-yard and the backward, hand capped pidgin language called ”Amharic-Lingua Sacra.” In deed it is the language of genociders and ethociders in the region at all.
Once we know that, there will be no seconds, minutes to lose to back fight with all tools necessary on our terra, in our home, on ancestral soil and on our own languages status, unless we are neurotic or even more schizophrenic, when the offspring’s the Nafatnaays dances in front of our noses in Finfinnee the placenta land, and the capital city of Oromia, where the wound of the genocide, ethnocides, evictions, displacements and incarcerations of the Oromo people for one and quarter of centuries turned to be the major duties and accomplishments the Habesha brigands to the very date is yet open, late alone to give them a credit for one, the backward, narrow chauvinist, settler language that was indeed scientifically disqualified by all native languages and hurdle for the development and global technological civilizations that we must get rid of it by all means necessary at prompt.
It is important settlers by virtue could never show their dark sides they are like a moon that enforces us to unveil that other to the public in concern and to the larger global community either of the past or the present. If at all one thinks to live as good neighbors let alone to live within each other. Fact is all tyrants who ruled the barbaric empire since here establishment are crowned as their heroes by the settler colonists, the Naftanyaas and their offspring’s yet.
For the Oromo’s and their historical alikes i.e. the entire people of the south to Habesha proper incarcerated within this prison house that preyed on them.All Habesha warlors packed in one are Genociders and Ethnociders without exceptions where the wounds and are yet open, the damages are irreversible.
We do not even begin to talk the macabre level of crimes they all committed. One must not forget that Nafatanyaas by virtue owe a trait of megalomania and they do yet dream to bring their monstrous from their grave yard to safeguard the prison house as they roar like a bull packed of lies, arrogance, hypocrisy and denials in every corner today in 21st century without thinking about the unforeseen and insurmountable consequences.
Far from being a neutral medium, the Amharic language, particularly in its historical role under the ‘Neftegna’ system, has been powerfully framed by some as a settler colonial creole—a linguistic tool forged through conquest and deployed for domination. This perspective argues that its widespread imposition across various newly integrated territories of the Ethiopian empire was not merely an organic process, but a deliberate instrument for consolidating power, enforcing assimilation, and systematically dismantling the rich linguistic diversity of indigenous peoples. Its ascendance, often enforced through policies that marginalized or banned local tongues in administration, education, and public life, has led to the erosion and, in many cases, the threatened extinction of countless African languages – estimates reaching upwards of 100. To characterize this historical dynamic as simply fostering ‘bilingualism’ is to fundamentally misunderstand and downplay the coercive nature of its spread, which aligns less with benign linguistic addition and more with a deliberate ethnocide, a cultural erasure achieved through linguistic domination rather than mutual enrichment.
It all begins with Language & there is no ifs, ands or buts on Oromo Language (Afaan Oromoo) Oromo Land, (Biyya Oromoo), the Culture and Identity ( Aada fi Oromuumaa).They are all inviolable!!! That is all about what LIBERATION OF OROMIA per se means.
“The Grass never grow under the feet of the settler-colonialists (the Naftanyaa) but a tree! what a tree, Eucalyptus!!!!”
Kan Hanqate Waaqni Itti Ya Guutu!!!
Injifatnoon kan Ummata Oromooti!!!!!!