POPULATION

[pirater]

Somali Bantu Population

Y'all I'm wondering what is the SOMALI BANTU POPULATION.

How high is it. I'm guessing around 1 million but probably more.

 

[486th President]

Between 1.5 million to 1 million some say in the 2 million area but I doubt

 

[pirater]

Between 1.5 million to 1 million some say in the 2 million area but I doubt

Yea same but I went to Somalia recently and saw them everywhere. Even This tuulo, at the Ethiopian border in Bari Nugaal there was a handful of them

Like they're everywhere

 

[QueenofKings]

I saw this Bantu Somali girl on YouTube. She said she’s Somali Bantu but 1) she wasn’t born in Somalia, 2) doesn’t speak Somali, 3) identifies ethnically as a Tanzanian tribe and speaks that tribal language. So confusing, makes me wonder how many other ‘Somali’ Bantus there are. I think she identified as Somali because her parents were probably born in Somalia.

I think a distinction needs to be made between Somali Bantu - as in people who’ve lived there for 100s of years and speak Somali etc. And other Bantu people who migrated recently - like I remember watching a video some years of Tanzanian refugees going to Somalia ( though I cannot understand why they’d do that).

 

[pirater]

I saw this Bantu Somali girl on YouTube. She said she’s Somali Bantu but 1) she wasn’t born in Somalia, 2) doesn’t speak Somali, 3) identifies ethnically as a Tanzanian tribe and speaks that tribal language. So confusing, makes me wonder how many other ‘Somali’ Bantus there are. I think she identified as Somali because her parents were probably born in Somalia.

I think a distinction needs to be made between Somali Bantu - as in people who’ve lived there for 100s of years and speak Somali etc. And other Bantu people who migrated recently - like I remember watching a video some years of Tanzanian refugees going to Somalia ( though I cannot understand why they’d do that).

It is probable they migrated before the civil war or that some Somali bantu tribes retained their language and culture

 

[GemState]

Around a million probably.

 

[Sloane Ranger]

200k

 

[Official_HOBO]

by the looks of it, 10 million

 

[Brick]

Somali-Bantu is the only Bantus i like they are humble and caring hope they stop getting bashed.

 

[Timo Jareer and proud]

around 1 million.

like 4 million+ if you count the half Madow biyomaal's and raxanweyn who are basically bantu with somali paternal hapolgroups especially with biyomaal

 

[pirater]

Wallahi I feel they be hitting 2 million soon. They've moved everywhere

 

[Basra]