Believe it or not yep. The two main languages in the region were Arabic and Somali at the time. The first sultanate in Mogudishu, the muzaffar dynasty were jointly ruled with Qahtani Arabs (now known as reer Faqi) who were in charge of the political affairs of the cadcads, until today. The first Arabs to arrive (even before my clan) were the Emozeidi Arabs aka reer Faqi.
"The name "Mogadishu" is held to be derived from the
Arabic مقعد شاه
Maq'ad Shah ("The seat of the
Shah"), a reflection of the city's early
Persianinfluence.
[1]"
"With
Muslim traders from the
Arabian Peninsula arriving c. 900, Mogadishu was well-suited to become a regional center for
commerce."
"The Sultanate of Mogadishu developed with the immigration of Emozeidi Arabs, a community whose earliest presence dates back to the 9th or 10th century.
This evolved into the Muzaffar dynasty, a joint Somali-Arab federation of rulers, and Mogadishu became closely linked with the powerful Somali
Ajuran Sultanate.
[8]"
Only the Ajuuran and maybe some biimaal lived with us. There's no record of other Somalis settling there at such an early date.