Closest people to somalis

[southside]

at what point did i speak from personal experience for you to infer my confidence levels? im speaking about in general, and if you don't think there's a collective negative reputation surrounding somalis then i dont know for you. all im saying is if you ask someone who may in fact be ethnically close to somalis the same question, their answers may be skewed from reality via explicit or implicit bias. just fax g

have you ran a survey to know this as being a fact akhi?

 

[southside]

Before the country of Somalia existed, their language had much less Maxaa loanwords and was more incomprehensible. Now they have loaned too much Maxaa words and it seems like a Somali dialect instead of a separate language.

They are like what Portuguese (Maay) are to Spaniards (Maxaa).

i was told by a friend that af maay is the original somali and maxaa broke off from it

 

[Apollo]

i was told by a friend that af maay is the original somali and maxaa broke off from it

None is really more original than the other if you exclude Arabic loanwords. They have the same origin, just diverged in different directions due to time. Before nation-states, public education, and mass communication, languages split from each other at a faster rate.

 

[Som]

Raxanweyn ethnic Somalis and the Garre are almost a separate ethnic group (due to their unique language). I would say they are the closest to Somalis (Darods-Dir-Isaaq-Hawiye).

Rahanweyn are a confederation of Somali clans who lost their abtirsi.
There are probably many rahanweyns with darood or hawiye ancestry, they are ethnic Somalis who adopted a more oromo sounding language

 

[Som]

None is really more original than the other if you exclude Arabic loanwords. They have the same origin, just diverged in different directions due to time. Before nation-states, public education, and mass communication, languages split from each other at a faster rate.

It's interesting because somali and afar are the only cushitic languages with sounde like X , C, Q and Kh .
Maay and oromo doesn't have that, amhara which is semitic with cushitic substratum also has very few X sounds if compared to tigrigna which is more semitic.
It's possible that the original cushitic languages lacked those sounds and that afar, maxaa tiri got it from Arabic or semitic Arabian languages

 

[Timo Jareer and proud]

Rahanweyn are a confederation of Somali clans who lost their abtirsi.
There are probably many rahanweyns with darood or hawiye ancestry, they are ethnic Somalis who adopted a more oromo sounding language

We wuz Maliz

 

[EDsomali]

Rendile are the closest.

They are like 90% Somali 10% Samburu.

 

[Yoo]

Before the country of Somalia existed, their language had much less Maxaa loanwords and was more incomprehensible. Now they have loaned too much Maxaa words and it seems like a Somali dialect instead of a separate language.

They are like what Portuguese (Maay) are to Spaniards (Maxaa).

Yh i have noticed this too, the maay spoken in xamar/benadir is easier to understand because of the maxaa loanwords but when hillbillies from the far south come to the capital i cant understand anything they say, it really is its own language.