Is that when you split from EV32 Oromos. When did you guys become Somali? I would like to know.
Our brother was perhaps being impolite but it is interesting to think the early T-L208 carriers were probably a situation similar to the Carab Saalax of Bari:
Carab Saalax are a different story from "Yemeni-Somalis". The thing about my cousin's hooyo is that she's clearly still Yemeni genetically. You look at her and she's just a straight up Peninsular Arab woman but when she begins to speak she's just another eedo (kekekekek). Carab Saalaxs took it a step further and began intermarrying with ethnic Somalis for so long that the only thing foreign about them now is their Y-DNA and that they rememeber being genealogically Mehris. I used to think their claim was bullshit but I do recall some CSs getting sampled and turning up with a Y-DNA J1 clade that seemed to align with Mehris but these guys' mixing started ages ago. Even by the start of the 1900s when they had a fort in Bosaso they already looked like run of the mill Somalis:
"Fort of the Arabs" (Carab Saalax)
THE PROMONTORY OF CAPE GUARDAFUI
GIULIO BALDACCI; THE PROMONTORY OF CAPE GUARDAFUI, African Affairs, Volume IX, Issue XXXIII, 1 October 1909, Pages 59–72, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjouacademic.oup.com
Originally probably a part of an Arabian wave that brought camels, Asiatic caprines and bovines and maybe also Iron metallurgy with them and assimilated completely into Somali society through maternal line intermarriage.