Hebrew has similar words to Somali?!?

[caanoshaah]

I was watching this video with Israelis in it omgggg my mind is blown???

I actually got jumpscared when I clocked some Hebrew words sound the same as Somali I had to double check and google what I heard and deadass Somali and Hebrew got similar words.. and not in common with Arabic…???!! That’s what getting to me rn

1. the word for dad in Hebrew is AABA?!?!
LITERALLY SOUNDS LIKE AABO/AABE IN SOMALI…??

2. The word for “I” in Hebrew is “ani”

This creeping me tf out where did the similarity come from because even in Arabic “I” is “ana” not ani and dad is baba not aabe WTFF???

thats all

 

[caanoshaah]

Somalis are the real Jews

 

[caanoshaah]

This reminds me when I was watching some Pakistani video about an avalanche (they got a lot of mountain ranges and what not) and I clocked that the word for ice/snow in Urdu is “Baraf” the same exact word in Somali I actually screamed because it caught me sooo off guard..

language is such a funny thing isn’t it

 

[Guure⁸]

@Maakhri2024 the one and only linguistic has been saying this for ages

 

[NidarNidar]

Both are Afroasiatic; the root of the word rarely changes, I assume baraf is a loan word from Urdu/Hindi.

Pronouns in the Afroasiatic family, following Gragg 2019

Meaning	North Omotic (Yemsa)	Beja Cushitic (Baniamer)	East Cushitic (Somali)	West Chadic (Hausa)	East Chadic (Mubi)	Egyptian	East Semitic (Akkadian)	West Semitic (Arabic)	Berber (Tashelhiyt)
'I' (ind.)	tá	aní	aní-ga	ni:	ndé	jnk	ana:ku	ʔana	nkki
'me, my' (dep.)	-ná- -tá-	-u:	-ʔe	na	ní	-j wj	-i: -ya	-i: -ni:	-i
'we' (ind.)	ìnno	hinín	anná-ga inná-ga	mu:	ána éné	jnn	ni:nu:	naħnu	nkkwni
'you' (masc. sing. ind.)	né	barú:k	adí-ga	kai	kám	nt-k	at-ta	ʔan-ta	kiji
'you' (fem. sing. ind.)	batú:k	ke:	kín	nt-ṯ	at-ti	ʔan-ti	kmmi (f)
'you' (masc. sing., dep.)	-né-	-ú:k(a)	ku	ka	ká	-k	-ka	-ka	-k
'you' (fem. sing., dep.)	-ú:k(i)	ku	ki	kí	-ṯ	-ki	-ki	-m
'you' (plural, dep.)	-nitì-	-ú:kna	idin	ku	ká(n)	-ṯn	-kunu (m) -kina (f)	-kum (m) -kunna (f)	-un (m) -un-t (f)
'he' (ind.)	bár	barú:s	isá-ga	ši:	ár	nt-f	šu	huwa	ntta (m)
'she' (ind.)	batú:s	ijá-ga	ita	tír	nt-s	ši	hiya	ntta-t
'he' (dep.)	-bá-	-ūs	–	ši	à	-f sw	-šu	-hu	-s
'she' (dep.)	ta	dì	-s sy	-ša	-ha:

 

[DaariqSiyaad]

Iraqis say "ani" instead of "ana"

 

[Lightshow]

So you are telling me that we are closer to Isrealites than West African Igbo's and south African Bantu people?

What a head scratcher

 

[Galool]

They just recantly made up this language stealing as usual most from Arabic.

It has no particular relation to us.

 

[cunug3aad]

Afsomalispot subforum should be visited more often this is elementary

 

[Midas]

Yh its pretty common knowledge that it stems from the Afro-asiatic root. The really intresting question is why berber which is supposedly closer to semetic than other lanaguge doesn't share the aniga/ani personal pronoun you see in every semetic and cushitic language

 

[JustSomeGuy]

I was watching this video with Israelis in it omgggg my mind is blown???

I actually got jumpscared when I clocked some Hebrew words sound the same as Somali I had to double check and google what I heard and deadass Somali and Hebrew got similar words.. and not in common with Arabic…???!! That’s what getting to me rn

1. the word for dad in Hebrew is AABA?!?!
LITERALLY SOUNDS LIKE AABO/AABE IN SOMALI…??

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2. The word for “I” in Hebrew is “ani”

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This creeping me tf out where did the similarity come from because even in Arabic “I” is “ana” not ani and dad is baba not aabe WTFF???

thats all

Somali & Hebrew are related languages bro, part of the wider Afroasiatic language family. Hebrew belongs to the Semitic branch alongside Arabic, Aramaic, Phoenician etc. meanwhile Somali belongs to the Cushitic branch, alongside Rendille, Afar, Oromo.

 

[Riftvalley]

My surname is Kaahin. In Jewish, Cohen

bahal https://biblehub.com/hebrew/926.htm

 

[Midas]

My surname is Kaahin. In Jewish, Cohen

bahal https://biblehub.com/hebrew/926.htm

Kaahin is also what they call soothsayers in preislamic arabia.

Kuhaan in somali is a poetic curse genre of poetry that affects "your fate"

 

[Soul Kaizer]

Sounds like the Somali word for no maya

 

[cunug3aad]

Sounds like the Somali word for no maya
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This reminds me of the coincidental gramatical similarities between somali and japanese even though they are completely different language families and completely unrelated

Somali waa and japanese は (wa) are used similarly despite the fact that は doesnt actually refer to being rather that role is the です (desu) afterwards

(Southern) somali noo(h) and japanese ね (ne) to prompt a confirmation response at the end of a statement

Somali haa/haye and japanese はい (ha'i) / は (ha) to affirm a statement

There are other ones i forgot i might come back to it later for now have this video

 

[Midas]

This reminds me of the coincidental gramatical similarities between somali and japanese even though they are completely different language families and completely unrelated

Somali waa and japanese は (wa) are used similarly despite the fact that は doesnt actually refer to being rather that role is the です (desu) afterwards

(Southern) somali noo(h) and japanese ね (ne) to prompt a confirmation response at the end of a statement

Somali haa/haye and japanese はい (ha'i) / は (ha) to affirm a statement

There are other ones i forgot i might come back to it later for now have this video

This comes i suspect from Japanese and somali both being aggluntiave lanaguges combined with us both being topic focus languages. So the Japanese have their own focus particles like waaa and baa or ga

 

[SpaceyCadet]

So you are telling me that we are closer to Isrealites than West African Igbo's and south African Bantu people?

What a head scratcher

 

[Maakhri2024]

I assume baraf is a loan word from Urdu/Hindi.

Borrowed from Classical Persian برف ( barf ) .

Perhaps we borrowed it from the Persians or the Indians.

 

[Maakhri2024]

Yh its pretty common knowledge that it stems from the Afro-asiatic root. The really intresting question is why berber which is supposedly closer to semetic than other lanaguge doesn't share the aniga/ani personal pronoun you see in every semetic and cushitic language

Central Semitic : Arabic, the ancient North and South Arabian languages, and Ethiopian Semitic do not have ʔanigu / ʔanāku .