Somalia's Forgotten Dialects

[Gadhwayne]

The Pwani were a southern coastal Bantu people from the 1st century AD who disappeared, possibly absorbed by the Sabaki, whjo were on the southern Somali coast from roughly the sixth century. They got as far north as Gezira by the 9th century and were then driven south and up the rivers by the Oromo and Somali migrations and the Gallo Madow wars.
. Those that reached Kenya are concentrated around the Sabaki river, giving the name. The others include the Gabaweyn, the Shebelle, Makaane and Shidle, all of which learned to speak Maay, the lingua Franca of the South and the farmers..

Another great research project.

Not all of the Book of the Zanj was falsified by that court clerk. The bulk of it is a sound historical record, some of which has been verified by archaeological findings. The trading site of Shungwaya moved as the mouth of the Jubba moved, one site being at Bur Gau, dated to the Roman period.
There is easily identified Bantu pottery all along the southern coast.

If you are really interested, check out Gunther Schlee and James DeVere Allen, who both studied the northern Kenya/southern Somalia area most of their lives.

Im still working on finding out more about those nations/tribes who were on the peninsula before the protoSoomaaliyoyd speakers expanded the peninsula and decreased linguistic diversity in the South

Know anything/sources regarding the Afar/Saho or whomever was in the North?

 

[Grant]

Im still working on finding out more about those nations/tribes who were on the peninsula before the protoSoomaaliyoyd speakers expanded the peninsula and decreased linguistic diversity in the South

Know anything/sources regarding the Afar/Saho or whomever was in the North?

https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/christopher-ehret

Ehret comes immediately to mind. You will find a synopsis of his work on Somalia as the last chapter of Ali Jimale Ahmed's The Invention of Somalia. It wasn't the Afar or Saho.

 

[Gadhwayne]

https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/christopher-ehret

Ehret comes immediately to mind. You will find a synopsis of his work on Somalia as the last chapter of Ali Jimale Ahmed's The Invention of Somalia. It wasn't the Afar or Saho.

I hope they this stuff can become more widely disttibuted and folks can stop this exagerated so called cush vsBaantuu vsNaayloowt identity that pushed by Kiinya and the Southerners