why not take tigray and afar land all together and join them to eritrea , then you have eritrean tigrays and ethiopian tigrays and ethiopian afars and eritrean afars united ahaha, i know its just a pipe dream its not gonne happen. The whole swapping doesnt make sense also because assap is more valueble then tigray , what does tigray have gold nothing its just a dessert with no real fertile land.
No way bro. Tigrayans and Eritrean Tigrigna are different. Other than the language their ancestors and pyscholgically areb different people. one would help you build a mosque even though he is Christian while the other will destroy it and spend day and night disrepecting islam and the prophet. Tigrayans are mostly Agew and oromo who adopted Tigrigna like 200 years ago similar to the bantu you have in somalia who came from kenya i think and started speaking somali. This is why the Tigrayans have a deep inferiority complex toward Eritrean tigrigna and i do not blame them, tigrayans adopted the language + culture + dress + Music + names and everything else and still called " Agame " it would destroy their self esteem.
I know they sound the same but honestly if you look at tigrigna people and tigrayans you would notice the resemblance most Tigrigna people are tall, longer neck and oval shaped head similar to afars while the Tigrayans look like agew/oromo short with no neck and rounder head, shorter hand and shorter legs.
Tigray is the most useless land in the world Bro, nothing grows there and there is no natural resources. more useless than a desert. the only export they had were salt who they stole from the Afar region potash reserve, they shipped it to Tigray and put a " made in mekelle " Logo on it.
Ethiopian Afars were part of Eritrea under the beja Confederacy for 3500 years till the 1500's, The 5 Kingdoms under the Beja/Afar Confederacy were united until the 16th century, ( im sure you heard of the king Al negashi who was ruler of the medri bahri kingdom ) The Afar Sultanate ( Afars) + Adulis ( saho ) + Medri Bahri ( Belew who became Tigre habab and Tigrigna kabessa ) + Belqin ( beni Amer Tigre ) + bazin ( beja hidareb ). How do you think people like Ahmed Gragn who grandfather is from Tio and the jeberti in somali and other arab/Cushtic Qabils moved around so easily along the Horn coasts.
like i said the Whole Eritrea was afar 4000 Years ago or so, and they welcomed the other 8 Tribes today and made room for them to share their ancient land, Afars are like our Elders.