should the name of the somaliland currency be changed?

[accident]

]I am vehemently against the use of SOMALILAND as the name of our country I am also against the use of the name Shilling as our currency. Every onther country is getting rid of signs of colonialism and we are revelling in it. No pride whatsoever .

Why don't we change it to Dinar and dirham. We could use Dinar as the currency and the Dirham as the subunit?

Ninyoho I agree with you 100% percent. Here are some better options:

- Isaaqland (My favorite!)
- Queen Elizabeth's state of Absolute Monarchy
- English wannabes
- Habar some clan

The list goes on but this will do for now.

[Saraxnow]

I agree with using Dinar, we werent colonized by Arabs anyway so there is no baggage, and people trade in geel in real life so it would be confusing. Filis for subunits We already use the term filis in Somali so it should be easy.


As for Soliziland, no comment

[KingMJ]

Dinar and Dirham what the hell do we want from that. And whats this talk about changing the name what the F is solizland thing.
Leave the shilling and the name the same.

If we wanna change something lets move the capital

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

I am vehemently against the use of SOMALILAND as the name of our country I am also against the use of the name Shilling as our currency. Every onther country is getting rid of signs of colonialism and we are revelling in it. No pride whatsoever .

Why don't we change it to Dinar and dirham. We could use Dinar as the currency and the Dirham as the subunit?

Exchange one form of cultural imperialism for another? That's a bright f-king idea.


Geel.

No offence, but your ignorance is quite painful sometimes. The state of Somaliland has never been under any imperial authority except the British and even that was a sort of laissez faire system and they did not govern us. It certainly wasn't to the same extent the italians had with you southerners with plantations and whatnot. They even built you cities.

There was a brief Ottoman control of Zeila and Berbera but that was less a colonisation and more a safeguarding the Red Sea from Western military interests.

So you see your point makes no sense, unless you see Islam as a form of Arab colonisation?

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Dinar and Dirham what the hell do we want from that. And whats this talk about changing the name what the F is solizland thing.
Leave the shilling and the name the same.

If we wanna change something lets move the capital

I'm for changing the name, the currency and for moving the capital to the coast, preferably Berbera. Somalis have to be original, you can't just use an old colonial name to refer to your own country and use old colonial money. If that were the case Zimbabwe would still be call Rhodesia.

[Cumar-Labasuul]

warya abdi ismail, the name somaliland is fine we still recognise our ethnicity soomaal and add land

as for dinar and dirham I'm talking about this:




just like the caliphate

[Mondey]

Abdi ismail the Country's name is going to be changed into

Soliziland, we will be Solisian or Solizilanders no longer shall we be Somali the name Somali has became a shameful name any ways

where is this name coming from? its not the first time i hear such a name.. i actually knew some guy that proposed the name "Solizia"

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

warya abdi ismail, the name somaliland is fine we still recognise our ethnicity soomaal and add land

as for dinar and dirham I'm talking about this:




just like the caliphate

Land is not even a somali word. Just think about it for a second. It's like the english refering to their country as Englishstan. When I think of Somaliland, Somalis don't come to mind but what comes to mind is Thailand, Swaziland etc countries that I don't want to associate with.

I even prefer Somalia as a name (even with all the negative connotations). We could be the Democratic Republic of Somalia and xamar could be the Republic of Somalia. Why not? It works for China and Taiwan as well as North and South Korea.

[QaaliDumar]

Talk about dad riyadi la fogaatay

[Methylamine]

I don't like the name Somaliland (Soliziland sounds like some Bantu nation ) nor do I like the name Shilling either. How about Garaabo

[gurey25]

both the name and the name of the currency should be changed..


I propose Awdal as the name of all somali land..

[Cumar-Labasuul]

No, almost every nation has their ethnicity embedded into their name. We are Somalis so that should definitely be in our name and 'Somaliland' just rolls of the tongue.
As for shilling there can be an argument to change it, but as for now it is fine.

I love the Name 'Somaliland'
I love the Flag
Only thing I would change is the anthem, it isn't catchy. We have vast amounts of abwaans so I would want something to inspire generations to come

[Saraxnow]

Dinar and Dirham what the hell do we want from that. And whats this talk about changing the name what the F is solizland thing.
Leave the shilling and the name the same.

If we wanna change something lets move the capital

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

both the name and the name of the currency should be changed..


I propose Awdal as the name of all somali land..

See, that's a nice name that even alludes to history - the Adal Sultanate. My choice would be to name the country Hargeisa. It is a beautiful name. Though I don't think Reer Burco would agree.

[accident]

Dinar and Dirham what the hell do we want from that. And whats this talk about changing the name what the F is solizland thing.
Leave the shilling and the name the same.

If we wanna change something lets move the capital

Move it to the coast.