Why didn't the Somalis ever adopt the Arabic language? How did they preserve their own language?

[Nomoregames2019]

As the title suggests. I know Arabic is still spoken in Somalia as an official language but not by the general population only by the like the Islamic Scholars and Ministers and other educated people. How did they preserve it to the point where the Somali language didn't become extinct amongst the majority of the population.

 

[Nomoregames2019]

Most somali words come from Arabic and Italian tho

Oh wow. I didn't know that.

 

[HanadR6]

Oh wow. I didn't know that.

Wait formal or are you gucking with me

 

[Nomoregames2019]

Wait formal or are you gucking with me

I am Sudanese bro, I don't speak Somali.

 

[imperialist]

Most somali words come from Arabic and Italian tho

That's false sxb!

 

[PhySom]

As the title suggests. I know Arabic is still spoken in Somalia as an official language but not by the general population only by the like the Islamic Scholars and Ministers and other educated people. How did they preserve it to the point where the Somali language didn't become extinct amongst the majority of the population.

The educated populace dont learn arabic in somalia.

 

[HanadR6]

That's false sxb!

I mean like 1800 upwards

 

[HanadR6]

I am Sudanese bro, I don't speak Somali.

Oh didn't know haha

 

[Muji]

Somalis didn’t read and write before the 70s I believe that is the only reason why.

 

[Dharbash]

Most somali words come from Arabic and Italian tho

No it doesn’t, stop embarrassing us in front of the ajnabi

 

[Yukon_Niner]

Barre and his push for a more somalisation (if this is even a word) of the existing vocabulary

 

[HanadR6]

No it doesn’t, stop embarrassing us in front of the ajnabi

Yh aight

 

[Apollo]

As the title suggests. I know Arabic is still spoken in Somalia as an official language but not by the general population only by the like the Islamic Scholars and Ministers and other educated people. How did they preserve it to the point where the Somali language didn't become extinct amongst the majority of the population.

Same reason why the Beja still speak Beja: nomadism. It is more difficult to make nomads change their language.

One ancient urban town in Somalia almost language shifted to Swahili.

 

[tyrannicalmanager]

Somalis women didn’t read and write before the 70s I believe that is the only reason why.

fixed your retarded post

 

[Muji]

fixed your retarded post
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Why did you edit my post you nacas. Do you really think Somalis understand what that means? They just memorise and regurgitate Arab writing.

 

[astorecalledkmart]

As the title suggests. I know Arabic is still spoken in Somalia as an official language but not by the general population only by the like the Islamic Scholars and Ministers and other educated people. How did they preserve it to the point where the Somali language didn't become extinct amongst the majority of the population.

The people who were conquered by Arabs speak Arabic today, i.e. Berbers, Nubians, etc. Somalis speak Somali because they were never conquered by any one power or nation - it took four countries to chop Greater Somalia into pieces who each spoke different languages. Somalis willingly embraced Islam well before most Arabs had even converted and we had our own written language dating back to around 3000 BC - we switched to the Wadaad script around the 7th-8th century (Somali written using the Arabic alphabet similar to Farsi) until Siad Barre changed the script to Latin.

 

[Nilotufian]

We’re ethnocentric as f*ck, we rebuke cucknimo!!!!!!!!!!

No wonder we’re also the last remaining pure Cushites

 

[The alchemist]

Same reason why the Beja still speak Beja: nomadism. It is more difficult to make nomads change their language.

One ancient urban town in Somalia almost language shifted to Swahili.

I think you will have a greater linguistic diversity if there are different climates, and the subsistence strategy to cope with it. Later, when two languages diverge due to some form of isolation, it develops as a marker for social identity.

One interesting thing is that there is a correlation between biodiversity and linguistics: low language diversity and low species diversity, and vice versa.

 

[tyrannicalmanager]

Why did you edit my post you nacas. Do you really think female Somalis understand what that means? They just memorise and regurgitate Arab writing.

i agree.

 

[Dharbash]

The people who were conquered by Arabs speak Arabic today, i.e. Berbers, Nubians, etc. Somalis speak Somali because they were never conquered by any one power or nation - it took four countries to chop Greater Somalia into pieces who each spoke different languages. Somalis willingly embraced Islam well before most Arabs had even converted and we had our own written language dating back to around 3000 BC - we switched to the Wadaad script around the 7th-8th century (Somali written using the Arabic alphabet similar to Farsi) until Siad Barre changed the script to Latin.

Now that right there is history!!