Kingdom of Yamma
The Kingdom of Yamma was a small kingdom located in what is now Ethiopia. It lay in the angle formed by the Omo and the Jimma Gibe Rivers; to the west lay the Kingdom of Jimma and to the south the Kingdom of Garo. Three mountains — Mount Bor Ama, Mount Azulu and Mount Toba — all distinguish the location of the former kingdom.
Kingdom of Yamma | |||||||
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| c.15th century–1894 | |||||||
| Capital | Fofa | ||||||
| Religion | Christianity | ||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Established | c.15th century | ||||||
• Annexed by Ethiopian Empire | 1894 | ||||||
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This kingdom is also known as Janjero. However, this an Amharic exonym that Yem people who inhabit the present-day site of this kingdom consider pejorative. The Yem people who inhabit the present day site of the Kingdom of Yamma have been subject to prejudice from other Ethiopians, and in the past some Yem speakers have expressed discomfort speaking their own language for fear of negative judgement. The ISO 639-3 system for assigning standardized codes to languages has faced criticism for perpetuating the use of the term Janjero despite its prejudicial origin; the Yem language is coded as jnj as opposed to a mnemonic derived from the preferred name of the language.