Bilingual, trilingual in Somali

[Aurelian]

How you can say them and other forms (monolingual) in af soomaali?

 

[𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒔𐒖𐒕𐒈]

I am leaning towards:

• Monolingual: afle
• Bilingual: laba-afle*
• Multilingual: afafle.

Linguists shall have to codify them for general application.

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* laba-afle in the literary sense has been adopted to mean a 'charlatan' with multiple questionable character attributes.

 

[Aurelian]

I am leaning towards:

• Monolingual: afle
• Bilingual: laba-afle*
• Multilingual: afafle.

Linguists shall have to codify them for general application.

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* laba-afle in the literary sense has been adopted to mean a 'charlatan' with multiple questionable character attributes.

as in double face?

 

[𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒔𐒖𐒕𐒈]

as in double face?

Double-face would be 'laba-wajiile', but is of the same.

i) In speaking of its other uses, 'Laba-afle' is also used to describe a sword or a dagger, as in 'waa abley laba-afle ah'.

ii) 'Afleh [afle]', a sharp knife, as in 'midi afle [afleh]',