HISTORY af somali history

[reer]

are there any written records of middle age af somali?
languages can change over time without a model to use. how much has af somali changed over the past few centuries?

is medieval somali mutually intelligible with what we speak today? what about before?

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[Aurelian]

are there any written records of middle age af somali?
languages can change over time without a model to use. how much has af somali changed over the past few centuries?

is medieval somali mutually intelligible with what we speak today? what about before?

Certainly no, there is even some linguists say that may may dialect is the most closest to the origin Somali way of speaking, or was it the cushitic mother language.

 

[reer]

@Factz @Som

 

[convincation]

Certainly no, there is even some linguists say that may may dialect is the most closest to the origin Somali way of speaking, or was it the cushitic mother language.

Personally, I say we abandon maxaa tiri and all start speaking maay instead. It even sounds better

 

[Aurelian]

Personally, I say we abandon maxaa tiri and all start speaking maay instead.

Why?

 

[Abu Hesi]

Personally, I say we abandon maxaa tiri and all start speaking maay instead. It even sounds better

Af may may may sounds better to you? You tripping dawg.

 

[Som]

are there any written records of middle age af somali?
languages can change over time without a model to use. how much has af somali changed over the past few centuries?

is medieval somali mutually intelligible with what we speak today? what about before?

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earliest records of the somali language are poems written with the arabic script that date back to the 19th century. some european explorers in the early 1800s wrote some of the words they heard from somalis, the words are basically identical. My guess is that af somali in the middle ages would be almost the same as modern somali, but with less arabic terms and neologisms

 

[reer]

earliest records of the somali language are poems written with the arabic script that date back to the 19th century. some european explorers in the early 1800s wrote some of the words they heard from somalis, the words are basically identical. My guess is that af somali in the middle ages would be almost the same as modern somali, but with less arabic terms and neologisms

do you think somali linguists should write a somali version of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh in order to preserve the language. use 19th century somali poetry as a model?

 

[Som]

do you think somali linguists should write a somali version of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh in order to preserve the language. use 19th century somali poetry as a model?

It could be an interesting thing to do. Luckily oral tradition is strong and people remember old poems, i think everything should be written down. We still have old poems by the sayyid and even from before

 

[reer]

@Som @Apollo what languages are closest to af somali? grammatically? why does af somali have a dh sound unlike neighboring languagws?

 

[Apollo]

@Apollo what languages are closest to af somali? grammatically? why does af somali have a dh sound unlike neighboring languagws?

Rendille, but they come from South Somalis before Islam who moved in the direction of North Kenya. Their language and culture is on the decline. Samburu (Nilotic group) is taking over their culture and even language.

All other Cushitic languages are quite distant from Af-Somali and there isn't much close similarity that a non-linguist could spot (split over 3,000 years ago). Only with the Rendille language can you notice many similarities.

A monolingual Somali speakers wouldn't really have that many advantages learning other Cushitic languages vs Arabic. Arguably, Arabic would be even easier because of more shared recent loanwords.

 

[reer]

Rendille, but they come from South Somalis before Islam who moved in the direction of North Kenya. Their language and culture is on the decline. Samburu (Nilotic group) is taking over their culture and even language.

All other Cushitic languages are quite distant from Af-Somali and there isn't much close similarity that a non-linguist could spot (split over 3,000 years ago). Only with the Rendille language can you notice many similarities.

A monolingual Somali speakers wouldn't really have that many advantages learning other Cushitic languages vs Arabic. Arguably, Arabic would be even easier because of more shared recent loanwords.

why are cushitic languages so distant from each other compared to semetic and turkic languages?

 

[Dhere]

@reer So before the 20th century there was no Somali script
How were the different Sultanates communicating with each other and hasnt there been different scripts found in Awdal and Benadir ?

 

[reer]

Rendille, but they come from South Somalis before Islam who moved in the direction of North Kenya. Their language and culture is on the decline. Samburu (Nilotic group) is taking over their culture and even language.

All other Cushitic languages are quite distant from Af-Somali and there isn't much close similarity that a non-linguist could spot (split over 3,000 years ago). Only with the Rendille language can you notice many similarities.

A monolingual Somali speakers wouldn't really have that many advantages learning other Cushitic languages vs Arabic. Arguably, Arabic would be even easier because of more shared recent loanwords.

also why is our language cushitic instead of semitic? we have the "hard" to pronounce consonants C X . afar saho somalis are cushitic languages. while argobba harari silte are semitic.