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Re: Itrah pls come in.

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Thanks.
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The Maasai and Samburu are simply Nilotes that absorbed some Cushites over the years. That is the only reason why they show greater affinity with Somalis than do other Nilotes like the Dinka and Nuer, who have less Cushitic admixture. Despite the centuries of Cushitic influence in these Nilotic groups, they are still not particularly close either physically or genetically to mainstream Somalis. This only further underlines how alien is the Maasai, Samburu, Dinka, etc.'s ancestral Nilotic stock to the ancestral Cushitic stock of Somalis:
"In Rhesus and other systems, however, it is clear that none of the major contemporary Kenyan populations can be classified as Ethiopid, except for the Oromo and Somali. Neither Luo, nor Masai, nor Kikuyu emerge as anything but ordinary members of Nilotic and Bantu clumps."

http://www.google.com/books?id=OmZ1AAAA ... CB0Q6AEwAA
"Rightmire used sophisticated measures of genetic distance and multidimensional scaling on the problem[...] He however found that his Nilotes (Nuer, Alur, Kakwa, Luo, Masai) were distant from his northeast Africans (Sab, Somali and Galla)"

http://www.google.com/books?id=OmZ1AAAA ... CB0Q6AEwAA
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The original Cushites were a Caucasoid people related to the Ancient Egyptians. Their exact ancestral genetic component is uncertain since their bones have not yet been subjected to ancient DNA analysis. The best inferred estimate available at the moment suggests that Somalis trace nearly 70% of their ancestry to them (probably in reality a lot more), as do the Afar and most other northern Afro-Asiatic speakings groups in the Horn:

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/fet ... tation=PDF
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/fet ... 04393.s017
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Re: Itrah pls come in.

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BaastoUnit wrote:we are 50% earth people, 40 % sky, 10% methane gas.war dadkani waa imtixaan.
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