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Am I the only one who read this as shahado as in I believe in Allah....


Btw Venusta take Djibouti's corrections come with 3 spoonfuls of salt. "Odhanaya" is a dialect and not standard Somali.
Oranaya you could say too or "odhohooya" which I don’t recommend bcoz it'll make you sound.... well ...

Djiboutian- Maxaan qabanaa-double a* because the a is elongated sax?
Do you guys do official classes?

Bisinka list is a mixture of interjections and adjectives-not nouns as far as I know. Are they feminine by connotation in your culture? I am interested in the grammatical aspect of the language ...

Hey thanx for the corrections

When if at all can I say Afka Soomaalida

maxaan qabana-karana sounds wrong-please elaborate

Why do men not say bisinka?

Islam is a way of life.
But I agree with you in that people get to choose this way of life
dadka qasab loogama dhigi karo what they dont want to leave of their accord
so yeah Education is key
There is no Islamic governement to reinforce social etiquettes so people should co exist peacefully
The ...

Xuu yiri.

Nimanka iyo naagaha is daba ordaayo for one.
Two the beats I have no idea what you goes rock on to. Your instruments ma saxaa

On a serious note. I am from a pretty conservative background and I pretty liberal on the inside. I lived in Kenya too. Anyway I loved participating in marathon sort of runs.When I came here wallahi I felt bloody limited in ways I never knew were possible but then I learned a lot of deen and runti I ...

1) Have one system. We have dawla taxta dawla. People do not have any idea of what the *Rule of law* means. Example. People will perhaps not pay taxes as they believe their clansmen can perfectly provide whatever service the government is claiming it would provide with the collected taxes. E.g ...

We need marriage counsellors. We also need rubaayado on these. Funny it would be.
People need to be sat down and told to write ish on paper and burn it. Knowing our people
they would wanna down the counsellor's office but still the release of negative energy can
perhaps save a marriage and ensure a ...

The problem is we are not united. Many as we are in the UK. We don't even have a united community campaigners.
The exam board directors have to look at many issues
1 Where are the qualified people to teach the pupils-the chicken and the egg dilemma unless we export from abroad
2. Lack of parental ...

Thank you for the replies gurls...I was starting to think one needed to be 40+ to get any form of replies in this forum

Utilising the language because it is your mother tongue does not necessarily mean you know the language...
We need to know the grammar...proper vocabulary usage...poetry ...

Apologies for the abuse of the punctuation rules horta

So who has a qualification that is[formal I mean,I know how y'all love inaa wax iska biya biyeesataan] for the beautiful language that is Soomaali?

Like how do we not read to our little ones?
Like how do we not appreciate our language and ...

Soomeone needs to do project on this. Like really sad. Like why oh why.

Oops didn't answer the question. Well you bet they will ask about your five a day i.e your salah and other basic Islamic knowledge. Know them-better be acting on them

Somali culture is a bonus.Islamic way of life is more important. Our Somali way is rich in content but it does not always coincide with the Islamic way. Know your deen and learn the Somali culture on the side-it is a beautiful culture.

I would marry someone that has the qualities I want and whom I would want to share a bed with. If love comes after the marriage brilliant if not I am loved by many already.