Gabra | |
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| Total population | |
| c. 700,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Ethiopia | 520,010 (2007)[1] |
 Kenya | 141,200 (2019)[2] |
| Languages | |
| Oromo | |
| Religion | |
| Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
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TheGabra (Oromo:Gabraa) are related to the widerOromo people in theHorn of Africa, they mainly inhabit theMoyale andMarsabit regions of northernKenya and the highlands of southern Ethiopia they mostly practice Islam and Christianity as religion but maintain mandatory cultural practiceEthiopia.[clarification needed].[3][4][5][6][7][8]
According to Y-DNA analysis by Hirbo (2011), around 82.6% of Gabra in Kenya carry the paternalE1b1b haplogroup, with most belonging to the V12 or E3b1a subclade (58.6%). This lineage is most common among localAfroasiatic-speaking populations. The remaining Gabra individuals bear theT/K2 (3.4%) andJ haplogroups (3.4%), which are both also associated with Afroasiatic speakers, as well as theE3*/E-P2 clade (3.4%) andE2a lineage (3.4%).[9]
Maternally, Hirbo (2011) observed that approximately 58% of the Gabra samples carried derivatives of the Eurasian macrohaplogroupsM andN. Of these mtDNA lineages, the M1 subclade was most common, with around 22.58% of the Gabra individuals belonging to it. The remaining ~42% of the analysed Gabra bore various subclades of the Africa-centeredmacrohaplogroup L. Of these mtDNA lineages, the most frequently borne clade wasL3 (19.36%), followed by theL0a (9.68%),L4 (9.68%), andL2 (6.45%) haplogroups.[9]
The Gabra'sautosomalDNA has been examined in a comprehensive study by Tishkoff et al. (2009) on the genetic affiliations of various populations in Africa. According to Bayesian clustering analysis, the Gabra generally grouped with other Afroasiatic-speaking populations inhabiting Northern Kenya.[10]
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