Ms. Nalia

[Shirib]

Are you saying my ears are backed up man? I've heard enough May May to last me a lifetime and I have never understood it.

Standard Somali [som] is difficult or unintelligible to Maay speakers, except when learned through mass communications, urbanization, and internal movement. Different sentence structure and phonology from Somali.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=so

Somali-Maay is alternatively listed as a separate language or as a dialect of Somali. In any case it is not mutually intelligible with Somali.

Ur not listening well enough.

The Arabic in Sudan and the Arabic in Kuwait might be difficult for each other to understand, that doesn't mean its not Arabic

[Voltage]

When you read it is not "mutually intelligible" that means people who speak ONLY one of the languages without being exposed to the other cannot understand each other.

If a Somali speaker learns Somali in Russia and another learns Somali in Venezuela, if they meet up in a market in Canada they can understand each other because the language is intelligible. But if one is only exposed to Somali in Russia and the other learns May May in Venezuela they cannot understand each other if they meet in Canada because the languages are not "mutually intelligible". In linguistic terms, mutually unintelligible is the last stage before fission leads to total separation of the languages.

Except for one or two vocab, I don't know what this guy is saying.

[youtube]jl968Jd4Fq4&feature=channel_page[/youtube]

[American-Suufi]

Are you saying my ears are backed up man? I've heard enough May May to last me a lifetime and I have never understood it.

Standard Somali [som] is difficult or unintelligible to Maay speakers, except when learned through mass communications, urbanization, and internal movement. Different sentence structure and phonology from Somali.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=so

Somali-Maay is alternatively listed as a separate language or as a dialect of Somali. In any case it is not mutually intelligible with Somali.

Ur not listening well enough.

The Arabic in Sudan and the Arabic in Kuwait might be difficult for each other to understand, that doesn't mean its not Arabic

shirib no offence akhii, but u r mixing apples with oranges. arabic in sudan, egypt, yemen, khaliiji, shami have differences only in accents like anglo english speakers from different countries ( or somali speakers from different regions of somalia except elay). but elay is a different language on its own, no one can understand elay unless they learn it from scratch.

i didnt understand a word that dude in youtube said.

[Shirib]

If that's the case then I'm trilingual ...kinda

[*Nobleman*]

Forget nalia i cant even understand it and my af somali is superb.

[Shirib]

Forget nalia i cant even understand it and my af somali is superb.

your maxaa tiri is superb, your maay maay is horrible

[Shirib]

Ms. Nalia,

Well maay maay is the language that Geledi and most of the rest of Digil y Mirifle speak

[nimco-]

Have you ever heard maay maay being spoken?

lool at this somali shukaansi . heey shirib SHut the fck up

[Shirib]

When you read it is not "mutually intelligible" that means people who speak ONLY one of the languages without being exposed to the other cannot understand each other.

If a Somali speaker learns Somali in Russia and another learns Somali in Venezuela, if they meet up in a market in Canada they can understand each other because the language is intelligible. But if one is only exposed to Somali in Russia and the other learns May May in Venezuela they cannot understand each other if they meet in Canada because the languages are not "mutually intelligible". In linguistic terms, mutually unintelligible is the last stage before fission leads to total separation of the languages.

Except for one or two vocab, I don't know what this guy is saying.

[youtube]jl968Jd4Fq4&feature=channel_page[/youtube]

That guy is doing a gabay, I can barely understand what he is saying

[hanqadh]

Wow how did they develop this dialect? Its like a new language....i can catch a few words.

[mahdi01]

Maay maay is not a language, it is a dialect and if you were not exposed it before you will have hard time understanding it at first time, of course someone that lived all his life one town such Hargeysa, Gaalkacyo, Caabudwaaq, Baledweyne or even muqdisho or Kismaayo but never heard before maay maay will have hard time at the beginning but over time, you will figure out this is Somali language that twisted back and forth.

Even with in maay maay there is two sub dialects for example, someone that is from Bakool region would say maay erte (maxaa tiri) while the one from Afgooye says maay dhe’te (maxaa dhahdey) it is very hard for Somali person that grew up in the west that never had contact with many maay maay speaking to understand the dialect.

There are certain maay maay words that I couldn’t understand were it was originated, but 95% of it is Somali words that were pronounced differently.

[Addoow]

Maay maay is not a language, it is a dialect and if you were not exposed it before you will have hard time understanding it at first time, of course someone that lived all his life one town such Hargeysa, Gaalkacyo, Caabudwaaq, Baledweyne or even muqdisho or Kismaayo but never heard before maay maay will have hard time at the beginning but over time, you will figure out this is Somali language that twisted back and forth.

Even with in maay maay there is two sub dialects for example, someone that is from Bakool region would say maay erte (maxaa tiri) while the one from Afgooye says maay dhe’te (maxaa dhahdey) it is very hard for Somali person that grew up in the west that never had contact with many maay maay speaking to understand the dialect.

There are certain maay maay words that I couldn’t understand were it was originated, but 95% of it is Somali words that were pronounced differently.

nice observatiions.

[Shirib]

Maay maay is not a language, it is a dialect and if you were not exposed it before you will have hard time understanding it at first time, of course someone that lived all his life one town such Hargeysa, Gaalkacyo, Caabudwaaq, Baledweyne or even muqdisho or Kismaayo but never heard before maay maay will have hard time at the beginning but over time, you will figure out this is Somali language that twisted back and forth.

Even with in maay maay there is two sub dialects for example, someone that is from Bakool region would say maay erte (maxaa tiri) while the one from Afgooye says maay dhe’te (maxaa dhahdey) it is very hard for Somali person that grew up in the west that never had contact with many maay maay speaking to understand the dialect.

There are certain maay maay words that I couldn’t understand were it was originated, but 95% of it is Somali words that were pronounced differently.

I agree