Arabic Speaking Area Past & Present Map

[El Nino]

For that you need to have a highly influential civilisation that outsiders want to emulate and be a part of, Somalis never had their own civilisation to even begin with.

Somalis are more or less part of the Arabic civilisation [or at least in the periphery], due to mainly speaking Arabic as a second language, having Arabic names and wearing Arabic clothes. Somalia would've been a core part of the Arabic civilisation if there had been a major language shift to Arabic like what had happened in Northern Africa [Sudan, Egypt and Tunisia etc].

 

[Scipio Africanus]

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Keep on dreaming, son.