Cumar-Labasuul wrote:OK since nobody answered your question then I'll give it a go, well first of all roti isn't a word traditionally from the somali language so if we changed the way it is pronounced then it would be no different to us calling suleyman as saleebaan or calling uthman cismaan.
Also reer waqooyi people can pronounce 'r' just like in beer or bariis, however you could say that most reer koonfur cannot pronounce 'dh' as they use gabar when the plural for it is gabdho.
I know roti is not a Somali word, and Canjeera is a share name in all of the Horn, but you mutated both to make Rodhi and Laxoox..so the question is why have you not followed through the pattern and called it Bedhbedha?
BTW, most reer Waqooyi I have seen cannot roll the R if their life depended on it, it comes out to "rdh" Bardhiis. The sound reer Waqooyi make in "rdh" is exactly equal to the r sound I have seen in Oromo and Afar. Perhaps you guys borrowed it?