Af maay history

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[NidarNidar]

I never understood the fixation of Maxaa Tiri being solely nomadic, when originally we were originally all agropastoralist unless forced to be nomadic due to climate, and wouldn't a mobile group have more complexitity, the more you know of standard Somali the more you can pick out from Af Maay.

I assumed Rendilles were the first to leave at the proto somali stage, between 5-1st century BCE.

Af Maay speakers split between 5th century AD I believe.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1275%26context%3Detds&ved=2ahUKEwitieLKvbePAxXyVkEAHd8bBYQQFnoECFwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1MH87vUcQN6BcZd8TqnxyO

Good read

 

[reer_ugaas_hussein]

This graph shows the split, jiddo is in fact the one that split the earliest, even before rendille, af may and af maaxa tiri are the most closely related of the somaloid languages and thy probably completely split only a thousand years ago.

 

[Kamaaludeen Al Reewin]

I never understood the fixation of Maxaa Tiri being solely nomadic, when originally we were originally all agropastoralist unless forced to be nomadic due to climate, and wouldn't a mobile group have more complexitity, the more you know of standard Somali the more you can pick out from Af Maay.

I assumed Rendilles were the first to leave at the proto somali stage, between 5-1st century BCE.

Af Maay speakers split between 5th century AD I believe.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1275%26context%3Detds&ved=2ahUKEwitieLKvbePAxXyVkEAHd8bBYQQFnoECFwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1MH87vUcQN6BcZd8TqnxyO

Good read

But modern day the vast majority of maxa tiri speakers are nomadic though, and Maya speakers are majority agropastortalist or even agricultural fully.

 

[Midas]

Eve beyond the fact that af maay is a spectrum and the diffrencd is exaggerated.

People need to realize about 85-90% of somalis speak what we would call maxa tiri and that blue circle is where af-maay speakers are located.