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This video is of a borana oromo woman’s song her dialect of oromo seems abit more similar to Somali than I would have thought someone in the comments also said it sounds like garre but I’m not too sure also borana live near the nfd of Kenya

I've been wondering. does af Maay Maay have less loan words than Maxa Tiri. I've noticed that Maay Maay doesn't have the letters X, C, KH. also correct me if I'm wrong but all KH words are loan words right.

I wonder what is the purest somali dialect, meaning the least loan words. I would guess the purest would be the reer mudug dialect

Post every loan word we use in somali so we can invent a new somali word for it. Inshallah we shall make our tongue 100% somali once again.

Being as I’m new to Sspot I don’t know all the lingo but I thought I understood most Somali. Some of the phrases written on this board baffled me. Mhmm waaxaad dilmu alahu tag daya oo bola muu muu fela Jira haassa mane galburo iyo halmac diftura wandan Aniga kataladu borre yahay This isn’t...

What languages can you guys speak at a native or fluent level! Write the language down and the level you are on. Keen to see how many languages we have on this forum

Sorry guys but I think that there is a sub-group in the Northen Somali Dialect which is the Djiboutian Dialect which has been influenced by Yemenis,Afars and the French. Vote on your Dialect I wanna see which one is the most used in Somali Spot Western Diaspora Somali is basically a Somali...

There are a few indigenous groups in Malaysia and Indonesia. Orang Asli The most interesting group are the Negritos. They speak a Mon-Khmer language related to Cambodian and Vietnamese, yet they look like a mix of Africans and Papuans. Strange.

I tried learning japanese when i was about 12 years old. I learned the alphabet in like 40 minutes (katakana iyo hiragana) (it reminded me of arabic because of the small dots on the hiragana characters). I wanted to become an exchange student in Japan and decided to learn the language at a young...

Where i live (Sweden) is filled with Somalis who have been living in the country for 20+ years but still can't speak a sentence in Swedish. Why is that so? when they first came to the country they went to a school called SFi (swedish for immigrants) and studied the language but noooooo. I also...

I find the languages so disparate that they no longer bear any relationship with one another. Compare Somali and Hebrew, for instance. They share no grammatical or etymological link whatsoever. Indonesian and Tagalog or Spanish and Hindi have more connection. Even if AA is a legitimate grouping...

The name Cushitic is offensive as it is a racial slur in af-yahuudi. I propose the language group changes it's name to Erythrean or Puntic.

On the subgrouping of Afroasiatic - Carsten Peust 2012

"Somalilanders" should change their current demonym cos that is clunky, inelegant and difficult to say. It should be somali because that is what the people are and is what they speak. Somalis of Somalia don't own the name just as they dont own the language or ethinicity It's like ROK and DPRK...

I don't. my friends don't either. if you do, is it because of your parents enforcing the "somali at home english at school" rule?

If he puts in effort and/ visits another time for a bit longer he will probably be perfect but seems like he may have been impacted by negative comments from Somali people. Good comment:

Is it possible for the Nation of Poets to be Color blind? Is there a Somali word for blue? In Arabic the color blue is أزرق ( 'azraq ) In Amharic the color blue is ሰማያዊ (semayawī) But Af-Soomaali doesn't appear to have a word for the color blue, one of the most basic colors. Not only the...

Languages I know: Somali and English Languages that I'm currently learning: European Portuguese

These are a few words from the High East Cushitic languages, like Sidaamo The only ones I recognise are: Sidaamo - Somali Daadd "flow" - Daad "flood" Hadiyya - Somali Dagieera "monkey" - Daayeer "monkey" Burji - Somali Dax-aa/dagh "stone" - Somali "dhagax" Kambaata - Somali Far "finger" -...

...why Somalia is in the Arab League? I met an Eritrean family the other day and they started speaking to me in Arabic. I didn't know they were xabashi, I assumed they were Sudani. It got me thinking, why is Somalia considered an Arab country when we have our own language and customs and the...