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@Sophisticate Nearly a month later, and still not received. Damn, and this company is rated highly, called them and they told me there are supply chain disruptions.

How Af-Somali constructs plurals is an absolute nightmare. There are like 20 different ways to make plurals. Ironically, this makes Af-Somali much more complex than English with its pea brained ''just add an S brah''. :damn:

@Shimbiris I remember while I was writing a paper on Japan for school a few years ago, I spotted myself constantly mistyping Japanese place names or personal names ending in -a as ending in -e. LMAO, the influence of Somali in my brain perhaps. Really weird how -a is disfavored in Somali.

Bosaso Gaalkacyo Burco lol -o and -e are the most popular vowel endings in Somali. Somalis seem to not like -a, -i-, -u.

Raaxo is a Somali name of Ancient Egyptian origin. From the Sun God Ra. Kkkk, extremely pagan name.

@Shimbiris Is there anything like 'son of' in Somali naming tradition like how Armenians use -ian / yan or Nords use -son (like Svenson) etc?

Would be funny if diaspora Somali hoteps created fake never before existing Somali names out of thin air using Somali words and prefixes/suffixes. Like Black Americans create fake names like Latasha, Dashawn, Reyvon, Shaniqua, Lakeisha. :damn::chrisfreshhah:

Wish more Somali names ended with -a. I think that would make them sound more beautiful. :dead:

https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magacyada_Soomaaliyeed While not all, this -e thing seems unusually common. Especially for the male names. Raage Mire Absame Gacayte etc

@reer @Shimbiris @Periplus What is the deal with so many original Somali names ending in an -e. I can understand it with names like Ayaanle, meaning having Ayaan. But for many of the others, the -e has no grammatical function.

Unironically, a Moroccan guy also said this to me once, no joke. Somali is a dialect of Arabic. :mjlol: This just reveals to me that Darija really is a separate language and not Arabic.

@Periplus @HiraanBorn Arabic IMO isn't a single language. It is only considered one language for political reasons and religious conservativism in the Arab world by artificially trying to keep the written language as close to the Quran as possible. It would be like Portugal, Spain, Italy...

I would like to learn Oromo, lol, but it has no language learning resources. Kinda shocking since there are more Oromos than Somalis.

I have tried self-learning French and Arabic, but given up hope and quit. I can't pronounce French for the life of me and the lack of vowels + extreme dialectal variation in Arabic made me lose hope of mastering it. I would try Mandarin if it weren't for their hieroglyphic script.

Imagine if we all had our real first names as usernames. I think people would be nicer to each other. :damn:

Lol, let's give dictatorial powers to an Isaaq. Siyaad Barre 2.0 with an Isaaq in power.

Canada is a brain drain benefactor. Europe doesn't get as many quality immigrants like Canada.

For simplicity's sake: Any name from the old or new testament = Arabized Hebrew Any name from the early Muslims or the early period of Islam (excluding biblical) = Arabic & Islamic

This name (Aaron) and Moses are Ancient Egyptian. Hebrews appropriated it from Ancient Egyptians.

It has etymological roots in the Hebrew language. Zakhar means to remember in Hebrew. In Arabic there is tadhakar for to remember. There is no way this is a proto-human word, it derives from proto-Semitic. Yah is from Yahweh. The option for you is Arabized Hebrew, don't be antisemitic.