holy im dying
@Amun ka sheekee ancestry.com it sounds like they have done no research on Somalis.
"Omg hooyo was right her aabo was from Yemen"
I have to say i'm not really bothered by this. I stopped giving a shit about all the incredible futile arguments about who Somali's are the moment the oldest human bones to date were found in Ethiopia. I just assume the reason why Somali's are so various is because most people come from us, rather than the other way around. I know the argument sounds flawed, and I have no scientific basis to go off of, but it just makes sense to me. So saying we're this or this, rather than saying we're just Somali is redundant and ridiculous to me.
Otherwise the video wasn't too bad. I criged alittle when she said "Somalian" though. God, hearing your own people say it sounds even more ignorant than hearing others say it.
Sounds more plausible than all these other shit reasons of where we came from.
Notwithstanding some previously-presented hypotheses on origin of the Somalis, Somalia is a six millennia-old nation that has been occupying the Somali Peninsula throughout the time of its history. Even the last and most accepted one of these hypotheses which originates the Somali from Omo-Tana region cannot be valid anymore, and it is not logical even, because of various, ignored accounts.
These accounts clearly suggest that the ancestral home of the Somalis was the northern part of the Peninsula with the Peninsula always being inhabited by the Somalis.1 In one of the recent studies on Somali history in general and reassessments of Omo-Tana story in particular, an intimate authority has announced:2 “this hypothesis cannot be taken uncritically because cave paintings, dating back to 9,000 BCE, found in northern Somalia, as well as studies of ancient pyramids, ruined cities, and stone walls confirm that an ancient civilization thrived here at least from the late Paleolithic or Stone Age…along with the fact that the ancient Kingdom of Punt once flourished within Somali borders’…‘Somalia is a nation with a history that stretches back more than ten millennia to the beginnings of human civilization’.”2
I have come to a similar conclusion on the question over six years ago. Somalia is one of not so many countries around the world in which a population change has never been indicated, and any sign of a noticeable substratum has not so far been observed genetically, linguistically, and anthropologically. There is no evidence for south-emanated expansion toward the north, but there are evidences for the opposite. The largest lexical statistics, and other linguistic standards, from various Afroasiatic languages are used in a forthcoming comparison for reconstructing the Somali history.3
Ancestry.com doesn't have any Northeast African samples. So people from the Horn of Africa get devided up into part Bantu part Arab. It's bullshit. Not scientific at all.
They are misleading all these people.
Which is why more people should take the test to advance the science.
Its should its logical. We are indigenous Africans and our origins are from Northern Somalia. We speak a language which is indigenous to the horn. We have DNA indigenous to the horn. Culture native to the horn, Our history doesn't fall outside of the Horn of Africa. There is no evidence that we migrate to Somalia from somewhere else.
Everything else you hear is just racist hear say echoing the eurocentric debunked myth of ''hamitic'' hypothesis.
I agree with @Haze for the love of god we are the only Africans who have a land named after us and yet we are so quick to question where we come from. Asalkeena waa Soomaali(Our origins is Somali).
- Introduction: Origins of Somali History
- Origin:
http://somali-studies.com/temp/?p=319
Your link states "This does not necessarily mean that the Somalis were the first humans who have populated the Horn. In fact, Old and Middle Stone Ages (Paleolithic & Mesolithic) cultures were observed across the Somali Peninsula and relating areas. "
So if we're going back that far, who were those people and how did they help make who we are today