The Amhara of Ethiopia, numbering approximately 36,170,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a major Semitic‑speaking ethnic group indigenous to the north‑central Ethiopian highlands. Speakers of Amharic—Ethiopia’s principal working language—they have historically been central to the Ethiopian state and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church They are an Indigenous people, with Amhara as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Ethio-Semitic people cluster of the Horn of Africa Peoples. They mostly adhere to Tewahedo Orthodox Christianity and Amharic is their primary language.