Bench people

<p>Bench people ( Mer Bench), are an <a href="/facts/Omotic_languages/ar9EClg8">Omotic-speaking people</a> indigenous to southwestern <a href="/facts/Ethiopia/LVujNp5v">Ethiopia</a>. According to the 2007 census there are 353,526 Bench people in Ethiopia, making up 0.48% of the country's total population Bench are among the major ethnic groups inhabiting the <a href="/facts/Bench_Maji_Zone/cMgnrscQ">Bench Maji Zone</a> in the <a href="/facts/Southern_Nations%2c_Nationalities%2c_and_Peoples%2527_Region/X4E4w3B0">Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region</a> (SNNPR), and the majority live in the former district of <a href="/facts/Bench_(woreda)/rHIpQVag">Bench</a>, which was divided into <a href="/facts/Debub_Bench/hbmyBtqa">Debub Bench</a>, <a href="/facts/Semien_Bench/hUSyYF1j">Semien Bench</a>, and <a href="/facts/She_Bench/R2X3PnpD">She Bench</a> districts. <a href="/facts/Bench_language/TIoIQuoI">Bench language</a> is the ancestral language of Bench people and belongs to the <a href="/facts/North_Omotic_languages/8VsEGUC2">Northern Omotic languages</a>.
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Bench people open-in-new

Bench people