What’s the percentage of loanwords in somali?

[land owner]

What % of our language consists of loan words? I always wondered

 

[land owner]

I once heard someone say close to 50%

 

[riyaale]

enjoy

https://www.academia.edu/4874976/300_Arabic_Loan_Verbs_in_Somali

 

[P4$t0]

"Somali's main lexical borrowings come from Arabic, and are estimated to constitute about 20% of the language's vocabulary."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_language#CITEREFLaitin1977