Afar sounds similar to Somali?

[bluebird]

it sounds like oromo words, with a somali format if that makes sense. like it sounds like they are starting to speak somali but it turns to a different language.
how does it sound to your ears?

 

[Al-Burcaawi]

Sounds like how Somali sounds like to foreigners

 

[bluebird]

Sounds like how Somali sounds like to foreigners

How about rendille? I think rendille is closer in vocabulary but afar is closer in beat

 

[Al-Burcaawi]

How about rendille? I think rendille is closer in vocabulary but afar is closer in beat

Yeah Rendille sounds like a Bantu person speaking Somali

 

[Pipit]

Langaabs with too much attitude towards Somalis

 

[bluebird]

Langaabs with too much attitude towards Somalis

don't be biased, we're discussing the language lol

 

[Apollo]

Yeah Rendille sounds like a Bantu person speaking Somali

Nothing Bantu about their language. Only foreign influence in it is possibly Samburu (Nilotic) or Oromo (Cushitic).

Although some recent English and Swahili influence is in there, but I doubt it affected the speech pattern of the rural/nomadic/traditional ones.

 

[Pipit]

Nothing Bantu about their language. Only foreign influence in it is possibly Samburu (Nilotic) or Oromo (Cushitic).

Although some recent English and Swahili influence is in there, but I doubt it affected the rural ones.

Why does Somali sound closer to rendille (omo tana) than it does to Cushitic languages?

 

[Apollo]

Why does Somali sound closer to rendille (omo tana) than it does to Cushitic languages?

Because they directly descend from ancient (Bronze Age or before) proto-Somalis who moved Westward towards Northwest-Central Kenya and intermixed with Omotics.

That is like asking why is British English closer to American English than to Dutch? Same reason..

 

[Marcus]

sounds like somali, nice.

 

[Octavian]

it sounds like oromo words, with a somali format if that makes sense. like it sounds like they are starting to speak somali but it turns to a different language.
how does it sound to your ears?

any gibberish will sound somali with the right amount of khat and beer

 

[bluebird]

Nothing Bantu about their language. Only foreign influence in it is possibly Samburu (Nilotic) or Oromo (Cushitic).

Although some recent English and Swahili influence is in there, but I doubt it affected the speech pattern of the rural/nomadic/traditional ones.

I think what he means is when somali bantu speak somali they speak it softly like the rendille. for ex the rendille say habartay for "my mother". somali bantus have a similar way of ending words with "tay" and "kay" and using that same intonation i.e. habartay

side note: did you tweak my title?

 

[Apollo]

I think what he means is when somali bantu speak somali they speak it softly like the rendille. for ex the rendille say habartay for "my mother". somali bantus have a similar way of ending words with "tay" and "kay" and using that same intonation i.e. habartay

side note: did you tweak my title?

The Somali Bantu have actual Bantu ancestors who switched from Swahili-like languages towards Somali and developed their own dialect based on Maay with some traces of pronunciation from their previous Bantu languages.

The Rendille, however, have zero ties to Bantu peoples and never spoke such a language. So I doubt they actually sound like ''a Bantu person who learned Somali'' (ironically I have heard those - some Kenyan Kikuyus who learned Somali for fun, and they do not sound like the Rendille at all). It was just a lazy inaccurate assessment, no offence to him.

 

[bluebird]

But the Somali Bantu have actual Bantu ancestors who switched from Swahili-like languages towards Somali and developed their own dialect based on Maay with some traces of pronunciation from their previous languages.

The Rendille, however, have zero ties to Bantu peoples and never spoke such a language. So I doubt they actually sound like ''a Bantu person who learned Somali'' (ironically I have heard those - some Kenyan Kikuyus who learned Somali for fun, and they do not sound like the Rendille at all). It was just a lazy inaccurate assessment, no offence to him.

it isn't just a bantu thing. reer xamar and some somali tribes sort of speak the same way

 

[CaliTedesse]

@SilverL did you just wake up and realize this lol?