Aha So Kayla and Kailina are the same but there s more to be explained After checking some more sources I think we can be sure of the existence of at least two separate Agaw dialects languages just like Bender 1976 8 says but unlike Ethnologue and Sommer 1992 first Qemant Kemant Chemant Kamant Kimantinya Kimanteney and secondly Kayla Kaila Kailinya ethnonym Bet Israel cf Mann Dalby 1987 16 xenonyms Falasha Felasha from Ge ez immigrant stranger Yihudi cf Ethnologue 1992 as cited in Sommer 1992 Kemant could be extinct by now Sommer 1992 mentions that according to Gamst Kemant is threatened by extinction In any case a huge language shift is going on here all speakers are bilingual in Amharic and according to Ethnologue only 1650 native speakers of Kemant were left out of an ethnic group of about 170 000 people in 1998 Endangered to say the least Quirin 1998 leads me to believe that an important reason for Qemant and Kayla being separate languages is that their speakers coming from a common Agaw base developed separate identities from the beginning of the 14th century on However apparently there s a lot of fuss going on in Beta Israel historiography cf e g and I don t know enough about it at present to judge sources like this though Qurin seems to have done his homework Anyway a third dialect seems to be Qwera Quara Qwarina Kara of Kwarasa Hwara Hwarasa this one appears to be extinct cf Ethnologue It seems to have been related more closely to Qemant Gamst p c to Sommer Sommer 1992 358 proposes that Quara Quarinya spoken by a few Falasha in Quara to the west of Qemant land is nearly the same language as Qemant I ve listed my sources below we ll probably be able to use them in some of the articles 00 28 1 Apr 2005 UTC Bender M Lionel ed 1976 The non Semitic languages of Ethiopia East Lansing Michigan African Studies Center Michigan State University Mann Michael Dalby David eds 1987 A thesaurus of African languages Londen M nchen etc Hans Zell Publishers Quirin James 1998 Caste and class in historical north west Ethiopia the Beta Israel Falasha and Kemant 1300 1900 The Journal of African History 39 2 195 220 Sommer Gabriele 1992 A survey on language death in Africa in Brenzinger Matthias ed Language Death Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa Berlin New York Mouton de Gruyter 301 417