Who are these East Africans that look exactly like Somalis?

[AbdiJohnson]

I think I've confused 2 dozen of these people with Somalis.

I always end up being surprised when they speak their language. Is it the Afar? Oromo? I don't think its the Tigray/Amhara.

Anyways a few days ago I met a recently arrived girl I thought was Xabashi. She ends up telling me she is "Somali Sheikhaal" but her mom is Amhara. She couldnt speak Somali and identified as Xabashi. I wonder how common Xabashi-Somali marriages are in kilinka shanaad

I am,

Abdi "My stories of the night" Johnson

[LobsterUnit]

There are some niccaz called saho from eritrea.they look very much like somalis.i went to a saho wedding and niccaz were asking me what part of eritrea I was from.xabashis, for the most part, have a distinct look, hair and and seem shorter than us.

[AbdiJohnson]

Interesting. I remember an Eritrean acquaintance once telling me there a couple of ethnic groups in his country

I am,

Abdi "Ill look them up" Johnson

[AbdiJohnson]

You are right.

The Saho people have a clan called Musa Aria. This sounds very similar to Musa Caareh, a Somali subclan

I am,

Abdi "They look very Somali" Johnson

[TheMailMan]

Many Beja people, as well as Afar people, look almost indistinguishable from Somalis. They are our cousins



We Somalis fall under the Green circle, under the "Cushitic" category along with Afars and Oromos

[AbdiJohnson]

Some Berbers look like Somalis but with bronze skin. The most look like Arabs now though

I am,

Abdi "From what I've seen online" Johnson

[LobsterUnit]

where do the tutsi fit in.?those distinctions are useless and racist.the hutus swore to send the tutsi back to somalia during the war..modern dna and language analysis shows tutsi have little relation to somalis.it was a myth created by europeans.same thing with all this negroid sub saharan nonsense.

Abdi, apparently the clan of gadafar saho were originally gadabursi sophisticatawis.

[TheMailMan]

where do the tutsi fit in.?those distinctions are useless and racist.the hutus swore to send the tutsi back to somalia during the war..modern dna and language analysis shows tutsi have little relation to somalis.it was a myth created by europeans.same thing with all this negroid sub saharan nonsense.

Abdi, apparently the clan of gadafar saho were originally gadabursi sophisticatawis.

There's nothing "racist" about these distinctions at all. In your simplistic view of the world, everything is "racist" until proven otherwise. I can show similar graphs outlining the vast differences that exist in Asia, from the Han Chinese to the Japanese to the Punjabi Indians to the Indonesians.

Huge differences exist between Asians. Huge differences also exist amongst Africans.

P.S. I don't know enough about the Tutsis of Rwanda since I haven't read much about them, but I've heard that they have ancestry that links back to South Sudan, Uganda, and Chad.

[Sophisticate]

BaastoUnit, that's news to me.

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Many Beja people, as well as Afar people, look almost indistinguishable from Somalis. They are our cousins



We Somalis fall under the Green circle, under the "Cushitic" category along with Afars and Oromos

True negroids kulaha

[LobsterUnit]

Mail,

Distcintions such as true negroid are not based on science, dna, lingusitics or oral history, rather it is based on centuries old racial stereotypes and superficial identities created by colonialists.what is a true negroid, eh?sudanese is not an even an ethnic group and many are nilotics.the tuareg settle in some parts of west africa, too, why are they not true negroid, assuming such a monster exists?define negroid.

Sophi, you heard it here first.

[TheMailMan]

Mail,

Distcintions such as true negroid are not based on science, dna, lingusitics or oral history, rather it is based on centuries old racial stereotypes and superficial identities created by colonialists.what is a true negroid, eh?sudanese is not an even an ethnic group and many are nilotics.the tuareg settle in some parts of west africa, too, why are they not true negroid, assuming such a monster exists?define negroid.

Sophi, you heard it here first.

It isn't supposed to be based on linguistics or oral history. Language families and historical narratives do. Stop confusing concepts that have nothing to do with each other. Why even bring that up unless you're deliberately trying to confuse people?

And anyone who has met, or interacted with, Tuareg people of Niger and Mali would concede the fact that they're similar to Horn Africans in many ways. In fact, their genetic phenotype is very similar to ours, as well as the Amhara, the Oromos, the Tigrays, the Beja, and the Afars. They are related to Somalis and are some of our closest genetic relatives. It is a fact that Horn Africans differ from Southern Africans as well as West Africans in many ways, and your deliberate misinformation won't be able to change this.

These identities existed long before a single European ever set foot in Africa, you deliberately try to make it seem as if these distinctions only existed with the onset of Europeans.

I suggest you listen to some of the old Somali poems and stories, where our Somali ancestors extolled the virtues of being a Somali, and they repeatedly emphasized that our Somali people are nothing like the Arabs or the Bantus/West-Africans/Southern-Africans. Only in the 21st century do we see Somalis with an identity-crisis trying to unite us with people we were never united with. If you want to put Somalis under the same umbrella as the Ethiopians and Eritreans and the Beja/Tuareg people, then that's fine....because that would be accurate.

But anything more than that is pushing it

[zumaale]

Till y'all take a DNA test, yous ain't legite.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

The only "ethiopians" that look like Somalis are the ones in Somali Galbeed.

[TheGrumpyGeeljire]

Qoti iyo canfar.