It has often been assumed incorrectly that the apellation of the word Barbar designating proto-somalis originated with the ancient Greeks a cognate of "barbaros"(barbarian/foreigner). However, the first mention of the term actually dates earlier to the New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1500 BCE), when it served as an ethnonym for the Puntites. Specifically, during the Hatshepsut expedition to Punt, the ancient Egyptians identified their Puntite counterparts as brbrta in hieroglyphic symbols. This is believed to have been an onomatopoeic imitation on the Egyptians' part of the "bar" or "ber" sound that was apparently common in the native language, the confirmation that Ancient and medieval historians were reffering to somalis when talking about "black berbers" will be posted below. An interesting fun fact is that pottery from around that time has been found in Hafun which was Ancient Opone which ressembles the word Punt that Egyptians called the puntites.
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I'm tired of yapping about medieval era please God let me live to see the Ancient Punt patch to Somali history
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Why do all of your posts make you seem like a 12 year old?I'm tired of yapping about medieval era please God let me live to see the Ancient Punt patch to Somali history
So, Somalis or aka Proto-Somalis have been present in Somaliwyen (Barbaria) for more than 3,000 years huh lol?
3,523 years, to be exact!
3,523 years, to be exact!
I can't believe that ancient Somalis built the pyramids! What a great achievement
