Gumuz (African people)

found: Work cat.: Wolde-Selassie Abbute. Gumuz and highland resettlers, 2004:p. 223 (self-name: Bega)

found: Innocenti, M. Note elementari di grammatica gumuz, 2010:p. 8 ("shanqilla" or "shank'illa" are derogatory terms for the Gumuz speaking people)

found: Enc. Aethiopica, 2003-:"Gumuz ethnography" (speak Nilo-Saharan language; predominantly identify themselves as Bega; before the 1980s, known as Shanqilla, a pejorative term for dark-skinned people)

found: Ethnologue, 2009(Gumuz, a language of Ethiopia; Region: Metemma area on Sudan border south through Gondar and Gojjam; along Blue Nile and south into Wellaga and Didessa Valley up to Leqemt-Gimbi Road; southwest of Addis Ababa, villages around Welqite (possibly 1,000); alt. names: Bega, Bega-Tse, Debatsa, Debuga, Dehenda, Gombo, Gumis, Gumuzinya, Mendeya, "Shankilligna", "Shankillinya", "Shanqilla", Sigumza; also spoken in Sudan: Region: North, east of Er Roseires, Famaka and Fazoglo areas on the Blue Nile; north along Ethiopia border)