A SOMALI guy in the show "The Sopranos"

No one knows who the first Somalis were, so no group has exclusive ownership of the Somali name.
LOOOOL is that the new argument…. We don’t know who the real Somalis are?!? « No group has exclusive ownership of the Somali name » Warya get out of here! Somalis are Somalis. If your Somali bantu than your Somali bantu…… nothing complicated by that…..
 
They were picked up by the arab merchants from South East Africa. How are you so illiterate when it comes to your own history?

You have limited knowledge when it comes to knowing their history in Somalia. They've been in this land for thousands of years.

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Some of the communities have been documented to be "Pre-Cushitic inhabitants".
 

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No one knows who the first Somalis were, so no group has exclusive ownership of the Somali name.
This again. Niyahow, they were Cushitic people who were genetically and linguistically closely related to other Cushites in the Horn like Oromos, Afars, Sahos and Sidamas as well as Ethiosemitized Cushites like Amharas and Tigrays. Do you think such people would have looked like Bantus physically or genetically? Don't be absolutely ridiculous. These people are, not knocking them for this, the descendants of slaves from the interior of the Swahili coast who have been Somalized, even the ones who have been for a long time and show no more signs of Bantu languages like Mushunguli if you do reading on the works of scholars like Virgina Lulling. Somalis were importing Bantu slaves en masse in Koonfur since the late Middle Ages by the looks of it:

A comparison, however, of the average prices of slaves ruling at Muscat and on the Somali coast will show that the export from the latter could not have been effected of late years, unless at a loss. I therefore reported, in 1871, that, in my opinion, the Somali land retained at least 3,000 slaves yearly - a number that I am now convinced was far below the truth; that, in fact, the demand for slaves in that country itself has been one of the chief supports of the Quiloa Slave Trade, as the transport thither was so profitable and, at the same time, so easy, while the Sultan issued passes in favour of any one who applied, securing the cargo as far as Lamo.

Once at Lamo, there is no difficulty, if ships are known to be in the vicinity, in moving the slaves for a considerable distance by water behind the island, when s short voyage took them to Brava, or elsewhere, as information led the owners to think the boats of our cruizers were stationed.

While the feuds subsisted between the Somalis of the north of the Juba with their rivals (new settlers at Kismayo, to the south of that river), many captures of slave-vessels were made by our cruizers, as the disposition of the boats was not known to the Lamo traders; but now, the land communication being open, intelligence is speedily passed to Lamo when the boats of Her Majesty's cruisers have taken up any one station.

This year, knowing that greater difficulty would be met with, the land route, which I before informed the Government would be a resource to which the Arabs would fall back when the sea became too dangerous, has been tried; and, at the time of our visit to Brava, in April, one caravan had already passed, having marched through Kismayo and Brava to Mogdeesho.

As there is every reason to believe that the present enormous demand for slaves in Somali land itself is but of comparative recent growth, it seems the more necessary at once to call attention to it, and to take means for its suppression.

The Somalis are a cruel treacherous race; described to me, by those who have been among them, as the very worst of all slave-masters, and who, from their behaviour generally to Europeans, although to me personally they were not uncivil, do not deserve the smallest consideration.


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It still doesn't change the fact theyre non somali ethnically. And bantus have been in Somalia no more than 100 years. Them being in Somalia for thousands of years is a myth.

Did you see the piece of evidence that I've posted and do you understand its content? If you don't, then you need to quit wasting my time.

They speak the Somali Maxaad Tiri and Maay dialects fluently and have ancestral roots deep in Southern Somalia to all the way Somali region in Ethiopia.
 
Did you see the piece of evidence that I've posted and do you understand its content? If you don't, then you need to quit wasting my time.

They speak the Somali Maxaad Tiri and Maay dialects fluently and have ancestral roots deep in Southern Somalia to all the way Somali region in Ethiopia.
Loooool your trying to claim Bantus lived in Somali Galbeed you might aswell add Djibouti with your reach!

I didn’t even know Somali bantu existed until a few years ago.
 
This again. Niyahow, they were Cushitic people who were genetically and linguistically closely related to other Cushites in the Horn like Oromos, Afars, Sahos and Sidamas as well as Ethiosemitized Cushites like Amharas and Tigrays. Do you think such people would have looked like Bantus physically or genetically? Don't be absolutely ridiculous. These people are, not knocking them for this, the descendants of slaves from the interior of the Swahili coast who have been Somalized, even the ones who have been for a long time and show no more signs of Bantu languages like Mushunguli if you do reading on the works of scholars like Virgina Lulling. Somalis were importing Bantu slaves en masse in Koonfur since the late Middle Ages by the looks of it:


Mushungulis were Zingua speakers and were affected by the slave trade; however, J/areer/Weuyne as a whole had a presence in Southern Somalia since time memorial. Both Turton and Lewis who were authorities on Somali groups documented this fact.
 
Loooool your trying to claim Bantus lived in Somali Galbeed you might aswell add Djibouti with your reach!

I didn’t even know Somali bantu existed until a few years ago.


Thiese are Ja/reer/weyne carrying out their traditional dances in Qalaafe, Somali region, Ethiopia.




Somali song about Qalaafe

 

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You have limited knowledge when it comes to knowing their history in Somalia. They've been in this land for thousands of years.

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Some of the communities have been documented to be "Pre-Cushitic inhabitants".

These are just earlier Bantu groups who got fully Somalized as one buddy of mine rightly pointed out to me in an old conversation:

It is dated to the 19th century , it when it's thought to have been written. It's completely fradulent in every way. Fred Morton was the first one to raise a case against it and examine it https://www.academia.edu/35534513/Th...teenth_Century and made another one doubling down on it with new evidences https://www.academia.edu/35534543/Th...w_Evidence_pdf

No early documents or traditions or even archeology, linguistic or the accounts of foreign visitors supports it. In many ways everything else just outright contradicts it. It led many historians to regard many of it's accounts as unhistorical including Chtiick who used to be an ardent supporting of it

The small pockets of Madow groups in southern Somalia are not remants of Bantu expansion into Jubba as posited by I'm Lewis and Enrico Cerruli they are actually just earlier freed slaves as their own traditions indicate. They replaced the Ethiopian mercenery(Mamluk) and domestic slave population from medieval times in the south (Which portuguese mentioned in Xamar) but retained the name Habash, it is similar to the Habshi in India. Virginia Lulings own investigation into them confirms this

The whole "Shungwaya" thing about some Bantus originating in Koonfur is also fraudulent as he says. It got debunked more than once by scholars and even Neville Chittick who used to ardently support it began to disavow it. Even linguists focused on Bantu nowadays plainly seem to maintain that Koonfur was always basically Somaloid and that Bantu groups only had some presence once you got to around the mouth of the Jubba as medieval Arab geographers basically tell us, aside from splintering tiny groups like Bajunis and Chimwiinis (Barawe):

 
These are just earlier Bantu groups who got fully Somalized as one buddy of mine rightly pointed out to me in an old conversation:



The whole "Shungwaya" thing about some Bantus originating in Koonfur is also fraudulent as he says. It got debunked more than once by scholars and even Neville Chittick who used to ardently support it began to disavow it. Even linguists focused on Bantu nowadays plainly seem to maintain that Koonfur was always basically Somaloid and that Bantu groups only had some presence once you got to around the mouth of the Jubba as medieval Arab geographers basically tell us, aside from splintering tiny groups like Bajunis and Chimwiinis (Barawe):


"Shungwaya" was documented by an Arab geographer. So disagreeing is one thing but debunking it?

Fatuuxal Habush was also documented by an Arab traveler. Nobody debunks it because it fits with our historical narratives. So why dispute "Shungwaya" if it is not based on denying any historical documents that show the presence of other groups in Southern Somalia whose presence predates that of the pastoralists?

This is the work of Al!med Dualel! Jama, a Somali archeologist, describing in his findings, "
The Origins and Development
of Mogadishu
AD 1000 to 1850
A study of urban growth along
the Benadir coast of southern Somali"



"Addressing the origins of this Swahili dialect in the Barawa of today,

Hersi (1977), writes that, towards the end of the fifteenth century, a new

. group of Arab retumees from Spain wandered up and down the East African

coast before finally settling in Barawa, and this, together with Barawa' s

strong trade ties with the south, may account for the Swahili linguistic ties.

Other scholars maintain that, the Swabili dialect called Chimini, spoken in

Barawa, indicates that, the original population was strong enough to resist

the influence of both Somali and Arabic. Oral traditions collected for this

research support the former position. For Mogadishu, some similar oral

traditions collected for the present project in 1990 indicate that, the building

of the early town started in two different places, called as Hamar wein and

Shangani. Linguistically, the word 'Hamar wein' is made up of two Arabic

and Somali words. In various folk tales, it is related that an Arab traveller,

together with his wife and riding on a lame she-camel, visited what is today

known as Hamar wein.

.
.
.
.
.
Simultaneously, she shouted very loudly 'wein' meaning 'a lot of

gold'. Literally, Hamar (Ahmar) means 'red' and the Somali word wein

means 'much' or 'big'. Caniglia (1917) rejects the relationship between

Hamar' (' Amar') and the Arabic root Hmr, red (Chittick 1982, p. 48). In a

more conspicuous sense, the Amarani are people who are found in Barawa,

Merca, Mogadishu and Afgoi and are mostly traders and sailors; they speak a

Swahili dialect known as Hamarani (Chimbalazi). de Vere Allen, writes

Hamar as equivalent to 'Shungawaya' in the sense of mji, sacred settlement,

in which its Bantuised derivative, hamarani or amarani is still used (Allen

1984, p. 38)."
 

Djokovic

Somali Arab
What do you expect there's no somalis in nyc or new jersey where the Sopranos where filmed. People don't know of our unique features and how we look in general overthere, people will just assume we look like any other African countries.
There’s Somalis in buffalo
 

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"Shungwaya" was documented by an Arab geographer. So disagreeing is one thing but debunking it?

Fatuuxal Habush was also documented by an Arab traveler. Nobody debunks it because it fits with our historical narratives. So why dispute "Shungwaya" if it is not based on denying any historical documents that show the presence of other groups in Southern Somalia whose presence predates that of the pastoralists?

Arab geographer? I don't mean to be insulting but you are outright lying if you claim that Shungwaya has been written about by any Arab geographers. Shungwaya is not found anywhere in any historical document outside of the 19th century like the 19th century Swahili one which, yes, has been debunked and found to be fraudulent by scholars. Look at the links I shared. Neville Chittick who used to be a proponent of its authenticity eventually disavowed it too:




And you truly don't know what you're talking about if you think Bantus predate Cushitic pastoralists in even Kenya let alone Koonfur.

This is the work of Al!med Dualel! Jama, a Somali archeologist, describing in his findings, "
The Origins and Development
of Mogadishu
AD 1000 to 1850
A study of urban growth along
the Benadir coast of southern Somali"



"Addressing the origins of this Swahili dialect in the Barawa of today,

Hersi (1977), writes that, towards the end of the fifteenth century, a new

. group of Arab retumees from Spain wandered up and down the East African

coast before finally settling in Barawa, and this, together with Barawa' s

strong trade ties with the south, may account for the Swahili linguistic ties.

Other scholars maintain that, the Swabili dialect called Chimini, spoken in

Barawa, indicates that, the original population was strong enough to resist

the influence of both Somali and Arabic. Oral traditions collected for this

research support the former position. For Mogadishu, some similar oral

traditions collected for the present project in 1990 indicate that, the building

of the early town started in two different places, called as Hamar wein and

Shangani. Linguistically, the word 'Hamar wein' is made up of two Arabic

and Somali words. In various folk tales, it is related that an Arab traveller,

together with his wife and riding on a lame she-camel, visited what is today

known as Hamar wein.

.
.
.
.
.
Simultaneously, she shouted very loudly 'wein' meaning 'a lot of

gold'. Literally, Hamar (Ahmar) means 'red' and the Somali word wein

means 'much' or 'big'. Caniglia (1917) rejects the relationship between

Hamar' (' Amar') and the Arabic root Hmr, red (Chittick 1982, p. 48). In a

more conspicuous sense, the Amarani are people who are found in Barawa,

Merca, Mogadishu and Afgoi and are mostly traders and sailors; they speak a

Swahili dialect known as Hamarani (Chimbalazi). de Vere Allen, writes

Hamar as equivalent to 'Shungawaya' in the sense of mji, sacred settlement,

in which its Bantuised derivative, hamarani or amarani is still used (Allen

1984, p. 38)."

A chime in from my friend who saw this thread from elsewhere:

The very study he qoutes argues against Barawa being originally swahili and says the founding of it is by Tunni saint, Aw Barrow. The origin of Chmwini goes back to migrants wandering up and down the coast in the 15th century and it's trade connection to the swahili coast.

Concerning Barawa, there are convincing oral traditions which which give the credit for the foundation of Barawa to a Somali folk hero, named Ali Barrow, whose descendants received Arab immigrants at later times (Hersi
1977, pp. 91-2).

Other scholars maintain that, the Swabili dialect called Chimini, spoken in Barawa, indicates that, the original population was strong enough to resist the influence of both Somali and Arabic. Oral traditions collected for this
research support the former position.


This is all supported by the linguistic evidence shown by ''When Northern Swahili met southern
Somali'' .


Also zero Arab geographers ever mentioned Shungwayah.

Shungwayah is recorded by several different European writers in the 19th-20th century but they put it's location in different areas far from Jubba and Somali coast and the only source that attempts to put in Konfuur/Southern Somalia is the late 19th century text Kitab Al-Zunuj which was found fradulent. The idea that these Bantu groups come from a place called Shungwayah is a 20th century myth and which some modern writers try to derive connections from with no evidence supporting them wether it be archeological, linguistic or early documented traditions and accounts by explorers.

In contrast to their Miji Kenda informants, moreover, five of the nineteenth-century recorders-Krapf, Rebmann, Guillain, Burton, and Wakefield-were acquainted with Shungwayah.te.l6 Krapf and Rebmann under- stood more or less the same, whereas Burton recorded two traditions, one placing Shungwaya near Pate and the other locating it in the vicinity of the Ozi river.17 Guillain and Burton identified Shung- waya as an early home of the Kilindini clan of Mombasa and, like Krapf, also heard of it in connection with the Segeju, a Bantu- speaking group now settled on the northern Tanzanian littoral.18 From his Islamized Digo informant, Wakefield too learned that the Segeju had originated in Shungwaya, a district he located, inter- estingly enough, in "Wanyika-land."19 Neither Wakefield and the others nor their informants suggested, however, that Shungwaya was in any way connected to the Miji Kenda past. Burton, Guillain, and Krapf, in fact, mentioned Shungwaya on one page and the non- Shungwaya origins of the Miji Kenda on the same or next.20 It is very difficult to accept, therefore, that the absence of Shungwaya in early Miji Kenda traditions results from the ignorance or indifference of those who wrote them down.
https://www.academia.edu/35534543/Th...w_Evidence_pdf

A Table on the recorded Shungwayah traditions by European explorers and the different locations they put it in:
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Sorry to say, saaxiib. But Bantu folks are not native to Koonfur, nor do they predate non-North-Somali speaking Somaloid groups in the area, pastoralist or otherwise.
 
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LOOOOL is that the new argument…. We don’t know who the real Somalis are?!? « No group has exclusive ownership of the Somali name » Warya get out of here! Somalis are Somalis. If your Somali bantu than your Somali bantu…… nothing complicated by that…..

Somali is just a social construct. It is not defined by phenotype or genetics. Somali Bantus are Somali.

I thought you were some miskeen faarax hating xalimo feminist, but little did I know you were of the Margaret Sanger persuasion. Abaay, abaay.
 

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