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 says but unlike ethnologue and sommer first qemant kemant chemant kamant kimantinya kimanteney and secondly kayla kaila kailinya ethnonym bet israel cf mann dalby xenonyms falasha felasha from ge'ez 'immigrant stranger' yihudi cf ethnologue as cited in sommer kemant could be extinct by now sommer 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 native speakers of kemant were left out of an ethnic group of about people in endangered to say the least quirin 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 th 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 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 apr utc bender m lionel ed the non semitic languages of ethiopia east lansing michigan african studies center michigan state university mann michael dalby david eds a thesaurus of african languages londen m nchen etc hans zell publishers quirin james 'caste and class in historical north west ethiopia the beta israel falasha and kemant ' the journal of african history sommer gabriele '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