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Queen Carawelo

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Where did Somalis originally came from? How did we get to Africa?


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Queen Carawelo

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But where did we came from? What is our history? How did we reach East Africa? How did we became Somalis?
 
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okok i think Somalis are one of the original people of Africa. have you read about the Land of Punt? which was like basically modern day Egypt.
 

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Somalis are believed to have originated an area between southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya along the Omo river where they broke off from other Cushitic tribes. The Somali language belongs to the Omo-Tana sub-group which is named after the rivers where Somalis settled independently of other Cushitic tribes. Somalis then spread out to the rest of East Africa and some estimated that by the 1st century Somalis occupied all of the Horn.

At least that's how I remember it.
 
Somalis are believed to have originated an area between southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya along the Omo river where they broke off from other Cushitic tribes. The Somali language belongs to the Omo-Tana sub-group which is named after the rivers where Somalis settled independently of other Cushitic tribes. Somalis then spread out to the rest of East Africa and some estimated that by the 1st century Somalis occupied all of the Horn.

At least that's how I remember it.
We're a hybrid of that pastoral cushitic tribe from south Ethiopia/north Kenya and north African nomads who moved southward to the horn for greener pastures.
 
Where did Somalis originally came from? How did we get to Africa?


Please no trolling.

To put it short Somalis orginated in northern Somalia.

You should read this book if you are curious.

Where do Somalis actually come from? The origins of the Somali people, often described simply as pastoralists, although they have been sailing to places as far away as the Indonesian islands before European colonization, is a question that has seen several treatises and theories. Dirkii Sacmaallaada (The Progeny of Cow Milkers), by Ahmed Ibrahim Awale is a serious examination of the question. Unlike some other works written in Somali and purporting to cast new light on ancient Somali history, without references to previous literature, it is apparent this work is based on ample bibliographical research. In chapter one, the author discusses the origins of the Somali people; in chapter two he examines the connections Somalis may have had with the outside world in ancient times; in chapter three, he addresses the ancient religion of Somali, while in chapter four he reviews Somali civilization. Those interested in Somali history would find this work much useful and original in many respects.

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Somalis are believed to have originated an area between southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya along the Omo river where they broke off from other Cushitic tribes. The Somali language belongs to the Omo-Tana sub-group which is named after the rivers where Somalis settled independently of other Cushitic tribes. Somalis then spread out to the rest of East Africa and some estimated that by the 1st century Somalis occupied all of the Horn.

At least that's how I remember it.

That theory is no longer withstanding especially since archeological and genetic evidence contradicts that.

Notwithstanding some previously-presented hypotheses on origin of the Somalis, Somalia is a
six millennia-old nation that has been occupying the Somali Peninsula throughout the time of its
history. Even the last and most accepted one of these hypotheses which originates the Somali
from Omo-Tana region cannot be valid anymore, and it is not logical even, because of various,
ignored accounts.
These accounts clearly suggest that the ancestral home of the Somalis was the northern part of
the Peninsula with the Peninsula always being inhabited by the Somalis.1
In one of the recent

studies on Somali history in general and reassessments of Omo-Tana story in particular, an
intimate authority has announced:
“this hypothesis cannot be taken uncritically because cave paintings, dating back to 9,000 BCE,
found in northern Somalia, as well as studies of ancient pyramids, ruined cities, and stone walls
confirm that an ancient civilization thrived here at least from the late Paleolithic or Stone Age…
along with the fact that the ancient Kingdom of Punt once flourished within Somali borders’…
‘Somalia is a nation with a history that stretches back more than ten millennia to the beginnings
of human civilization’.”2
I have come to a similar conclusion on the question over six years ago. Somalia is one of not so
many countries around the world in which a population change has never been indicated, and any
sign of a noticeable substratum has not so far been observed genetically, linguistically, and
anthropologically. There is no evidence for south-emanated expansion toward the north, but
there are evidences for the opposite. The largest lexical statistics, and other linguistic standards,
from various Afroasiatic languages are used in a forthcoming comparison for reconstructing the
Somali history

http://www.wardheernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/The-Ancient-Kingdom-of-Punt_Shidad.pdf
 
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