Table 2. Estimated mean proportion of ancestry (greater than 5%) in Horn of Africa populations.1 .
Nilo-Saharan speaking | Cushitic speaking | Semitic speaking | Omotic speaking | ||||||||
Anuak | Gumuz | Afar | Oromo | Ethiopian Somali | Somali | Amhara | Tygray | Wolayta | Ari Cultivator | Ari Blacksmith | |
Niger-Congo | 0.11 | ||||||||||
Nilo-Saharan | 0.75 | 0.59 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.22 | 0.23 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.10 | |
Ethiopic | 0.07 | 0.35 | 0.08 | 0.21 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.35 | 0.63 | 0.94 |
Ethio-Somali | 0.43 | 0.32 | 0.53 | 0.57 | 0.35 | 0.35 | 0.27 | 0.17 | |||
Arabian | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.08 | ||||||
Eurasian | 0.07 | 0.08 |
None of the Horn of Africa populations have 5% or greater ancestry from Khoesan, Pygmy, Maghrebi, European, South Asian, or East Asian ancestral populations, so these ancestries are not shown in the table.