Random question

[convincation]

Do your parents hate other somali dialects?

I have family from all over so sometimes I would switch up my accent a occasionally for the sake of it. Whenever I talk in either waqooyi or cadcad my dad goes crazy, you can tell the hate is deep

whenever I ask him if he actually hates cadcads or reer waqooyis he always says they’re his fellow somalis and he doesn’t hate either, but hates hearing their accent even when it comes from an actual cadcad or reer waqooyi

 

[digaagjecel]

My dad speaks multiple somali dialects and switches it up depending on who he is talking to. This lady who used to live with us used to speak may may to us when we’re younger. We would copy her and speak it to my mom. Everytime we did that my mom would have the biggest smile on her face.

 

[Riya.]

I’ve seen my dad switch up his dialect depending on who he’s with, it’s hilarious I don’t know if he does it to mock them or…

 

[Caaro]

lol my family has no problem with it but in Somalia especially you’ll get some laughs here and there.

Like I was in hargeisa and I asked the guy “aaway musqusha” and he just laughed lol. Or when I asked my uncle in laascaanood if he went to dugsi and he said of course and he thought I meant school. I had to switch to malcaamad.

my problem is that I don’t know which dialect is which but after staying here I’m starting to tell them apart.

Also, there’s even differences between laascaanood and hargeisa. I remember one says “garan” for t-shirt and another says “garamad” but I forgot which one says which.

 

[xoxoboredgirl]

lol my family has no problem with it but in Somalia especially you’ll get some laughs here and there.

Like I was in hargeisa and I asked the guy “aaway musqusha” and he just laughed lol. Or when I asked my uncle in laascaanood if he went to dugsi and he said of course and he thought I meant school. I had to switch to malcaamad.

my problem is that I don’t know which dialect is which but after staying here I’m starting to tell them apart.

Also, there’s even differences between laascaanood and hargeisa. I remember one says “garan” for t-shirt and another says “garamad” but I forgot which one says which.

I think garan is said by hargeisa folk. Hope I’m not wrong

 

[convincation]

lol my family has no problem with it but in Somalia especially you’ll get some laughs here and there.

Like I was in hargeisa and I asked the guy “aaway musqusha” and he just laughed lol. Or when I asked my uncle in laascaanood if he went to dugsi and he said of course and he thought I meant school. I had to switch to malcaamad.

my problem is that I don’t know which dialect is which but after staying here I’m starting to tell them apart.

Also, there’s even differences between laascaanood and hargeisa. I remember one says “garan” for t-shirt and another says “garamad” but I forgot which one says which.

Don’t you speak reer waqooyi? I thought reer waqooyi say suuli for toilet

 

[Caaro]

Don’t you speak reer waqooyi? I thought reer waqooyi say suuli for toilet

yes they do, but my father is reer xamar. I learned most of my somali from him lmao.

So I actually speak koonfuur. Which is why they were laughing at me for saying musqul instead of suuli. My mom also says musqul but that’s only when talking to us and my dad, when she’s in laascaanood she says suuli.

Lately I’ve been switching to waqooyi dialect too.