He’s on mute again
Let’s test how Arabicized our language has become
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How many people use the Somali days of the
week? I knew they existed but most people wouldn’t be able to tell you in person at all.
It’s sad that we have Somali words but purposefully arabicize our language.
we even say “subax wanagsan” instead of “Aroor wanagsan.”
What language is this that cannot be Somali
exactly my point.
this is how people slowly lose their language. Replace perfectly fine words with another language and not teach the next generation.
Always the same topics ,who cares
apparently you do because you’re filling up the front page with your useless nonsense. If you’re not contributing, bax.
At this point the Abdi booty clapping squad was summoned and they’re coming in full force
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It is not just a “few” words.
When your average Somali person doesn’t know even the basic days of the week in Somali, that’s a problem.
most Somalis don’t know the months in Somali but can say them in Arabic or even Italian.
This is how a language slowly dies out over centuries… by replacing perfect to use everyday words with another’s language.
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These sound better than their Arabic versions. We should re-adopt these
Somalis go by seasons and the people back home know the seasons. Its us diaspora people that struggle with the language, no need to generalise all of us.
Also most somalis don’t know the months in arabic. We say month and add a number example like this month is bisha afaraad.
Only reason why us somalis use arabic days of the week is Islam. accepting Islam, and friday being holy day in Islam, we changed our schedule of the week.
Most of the somali words listed as days of the week are in Af maay, a language closely related to mainstream Somali ( maxaa tiri, basically what you and I know as somali ). This explains why many of us don’t know the days of the week in somali.
It's not just us Diaspora people. Even in the Somali school system they use Arabic or Italian days of the week to teach children.
Go to youtube and see if you can find genuine Somali calendar or days of the week. The answer is it's impossible. Only some random Ajnabi is doing it.
Here's the days of the week in Af maxaa tiri.
- Dimaley - Saturday
- Cadceeda - Sunday
- Hobola - Monday
- Woogley - Tuesday
- Dhabra. - Wednesday
- Dabeyl - Thursday
- Dusa - Friday
Months in Af-maxa tirii Somali:
- Naas - January
- Kodxin - February
- Dirir - March
- Gudba - April
- Xorey - May
- Darabley - June
- Cirir - July
- Cuur - August
- Duugato - September
- Meecaad - October
- Agaali - November
- AfoGaal - December
source: https://www.voasomali.com/a/4756882.html
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Question @Magan95 your problem is, we use arabic words for days of the week but not once you have complained about the very calendar we use. Hint, its not an arabic one nor an indigenous somali.
So whats the issue if we use arabic names for a foreign calendar? You are making a big deal out of this for nothing.
Did you not hear the part where I said I want genuine Somali Kaltirsi? Meaning I'm against the incorporation of Arabic, Italian, or English in our basic Somali. I understand using these words for new inventions such as "TV" etc.
I'm against the incorporation of any foreign language to replace names that we already have and been using for centuries.
If It's not a big deal for us to use the days of the month in another language, why don't you step it up by saying it's not a big deal to speak Somali anymore? As a matter of fact, why don't we only teach English now...
f*ck me I didn't have a clue about the days of the week being arab. How did we let it get this far smh.
This. If we already have a word for it then why on earth are we replacing it. I understand something new and foreign but damn not everything needs to be a loan word.
Exactly, it's sad the level we've already reached after colonialism and now voluntary neo-cultural colonialism.
Look up most educational somali youtube videos and they're teaching children the days of the week in Arabic or Italian.
Do you even know the reason why we still use a foreign calendar? Because we have to. Due to globalisation, gregorian calendar has spread to every corner of the world and its use is a must in this world. Gregorian calendar is here to say. You are fighting an uphill battle. You can’t purge all foreign influences. Thats how cultures stay stagnant.
I too would want to use somali names for days of the week but I do not see it as a big deal. To me you are nitpicking. If we would start to use them, I wouldn’t mind. I just don’t see this as a pressing matter.
Max 10% of somali is loanwords, its just noticeable due to we use a lot of loanwords to things which did not exist in Somalia historically.
Our traditional Somali Solar Calendar is 12 months and 365 days as week as well. This was an ancient system that was very accurate. We had multiple calendar systems, both Lunar and Solar. How do you think our ancestors were able to accurately voyage and be seafarers without a Calendar system?
We had multiple names to refer to the days of the week, that's why you can find many variations whether in Af-Maay or Af-maxaa tiri.
Click on the source that says "Somali calendar at Wardheer.startlogic.com and it will take you to the wayback machine that has a PDF.
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I think preIslamic Somalis were very very intelligent, apparently they had their own religion empire called Microbia with ports and everything. It was a burgeoning civilization...their religion was Waaqaa, and even conquered parts of Mozambique''
