English and French have loanwords from both these countries. It’s a two way street, they both benefited. What loanwords did Arabs take away from you? Or did they completely have influence over you which made you abandon your own vocabulary? Your logic makes no sense. In Arabic there are Persian and Turkish words, they’ve been exchanging traditions for centuries and have adopted each other’s vocabulary. It goes both ways, now tell me. What Somali words did the Arabs learn from you?
Our language isn’t a dialect. Grow a pair
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The Arabic gets worse in the north. A lot of people are tryna force Arabic down our throats. Some Somalis will say eryga sharaab unukaa leh, some won’t even acknowledge the Somali words we have and will use Arabic instead. Let’s talk about the shaqsi nebeed within the community. There is no kalsooni, I’m using specific Somali words because waxaan waa ceeb. It’s actually making me cringe just thinking about it
it is a dialect. lunch and dinner are all arabic. accept your arabic linguistic roots
Even the word breakfast quraac
Somali is a dying language. We lost our days of the week to Arabic and we also lost our traditional Somali calendar to the Italian language. Stop derailing
What do you consider the south?
exactly. somali is practically arabic atp
These are loan words lol
It’s Arabic, Italian, Persian etc. We have indigenous words but have completely abandoned them.
those are the most basic words a language can have. face and right too. over 40% of our language derives from arabic.
italian and persian loanwords are no where close to arabic ones
Don’t get me wrong you’re absolutely right. I don’t think it’s a dialect though, Somali is a completely different language. We’ve adopted Arabic and ran with it leaving behind our Indigenous vocabulary.
Can’t even say which month it is in Somalia without speaking Italian. But that’s very true
The south is worse, the more their language is affected by the Semitic Amharic, Swahili and Italian words like ukun It's Amhara And several other words spoken by coastal residents are of Swahili origins
Nigga are you a poet how the hell do you speak classical Somali
