Different Somaliland accents/dialects

[yunis09]

cumar there is no real difference in all of them! i mean im from ceerigabo and i dont sound like the guy that was calling the radio

[X.Playa]

cumar there is no real difference in all of them! i mean im from ceerigabo and i dont sound like the guy that was calling the radio

Any Isaaq can recognize Ceerigaabo accent with their short crazy snap when talking like saying all fo a sudden " ma garan" meaning ma garatay as most western Isaaq would. I know this Biicde freind of mine i sent to an old reer Samatar guy to get me something , and he went to Xaraf section of Hargaysa and began his weird accent , begining with "walaaleey" the sacad muuse just looked at him and asked "where you from dude"

[Cumar-Labasuul]

yunis, bro you are fish n chips mate with a cockney twist

[AbkoowDhiblaawe]

warsheekh

I thought marka speak the same as xamar - also from those I've seen the abgaal of mogadishu sound different to the ethnic xamaraawis i.e. shaansi

naah marko accent is messed up, i don't know bro perhaps but nobody in my fam speaks xaayow just the typical ciyaal xaafad accent

[yunis09]

X ok if you say so since you are an expert in these matters next time i will pay more attention to relatives who are from these different regions

cumar abti waa maxay ceeydu im far from fish and chibis,

[Faarax-Caytame]

Horta waxani wax muuqda oynu ku murmeyno oynu leenahay sidan buu u egyahay iyo saas buu u egyahay.
Waa jabaq iyo cod... Jabaq iyo codna waxaa miisaama dhagaha qofka.. Bal waxaan isku dayi anoo cadeynteynda culeys uraadinaya inaan youtube ka dhex ulo, Videoyo laga soo duubayo degmooyinka kala duwan ay soomaalidu degto.. Bal ila cabira kolkaas....

[X.Playa]

Horta waxani wax muuqda oynu ku murmeyno oynu leenahay sidan buu u egyahay iyo saas buu u egyahay.
Waa jabaq iyo cod... Jabaq iyo codna waxaa miisaama dhagaha qofka.. Bal waxaan isku dayi anoo cadeynteynda culeys uraadinaya inaan youtube ka dhex ulo, Videoyo laga soo duubayo degmooyinka kala duwan ay soomaalidu degto.. Bal ila cabira kolkaas....

Maaha dhawaaq ee xataa waa qoraal.. hada eeg waxad tidhi "saas" anigu waxan qoraa "sidaas"

Hadaba Ogaadeenkoo dhan ma waxay yidhaahdaan "saas" mise "sidaas" , tusaale kale waxad odhanaysaa , ama waxad dhahaysaa, ama waxa oranayaa/odhanayaa/oranahayaa. Intaas oo dhan qabiil kuma xidhna waxay ku xidhantay degaan. Waxa la yidhahdo lahajad qabiil ma jirto.

Imika qolyihiina Ogaadeen intaydaan is waalin oo Afweyne iyo qabyaaladu idin waalin , waxba lahjadiinu kama duwanayn Isaaq isku xuduuda ah tihiin. waayo danbe ayaad is wada moodeen walaweyn ood afkii badasheen, imika wax yar ayaa ogaadeen ku hadla afkoodii hore.,

[KingWaslawi]

Ma dialects baa weli la isku harqinayaa??

INTAN BAA LAGU KALA BAXAYAA, AKHRI KA DIBNA SOO POST-GAREE HALKAN.

''HADALKAA ANIGU MA ODHAN,
MANA ODHAN KARO,
HASE KII YIDHI, IIGU SOO YEEDH
HA YIDHAAHDO, ISAGAA YIDHI
AAN IDHAAHDO, ANIGU MA ODHAN, EE ADIGAA YIDHI
HA YIDHAAHDO ANIGAA IDHI''

AAN ISKA BILAABO

[Thuganomics]

Horta ma la yidhi
Mise lama odhan
Hadii la yidhi
Anigaa idhi
Anigaa odhan
Anuu maan odhan
Ee inoogu yeedh

Either it's been said
Or it hasn't been said
If it's been said
That I said it
I will say
I never said it
So call them for us

[sadeboi]

x.playa Darood do not have the same accent...the vocabulary might be the same but the accent is quite different...I believe cumar was closest in explaining general Somali accents. The Northern Darood have similarities to waqooyiga kale although you can generally tell they are Darood because it isn't so thick as Isaaq iyo Gedobursi. Then there is the reer bari accent which is anything above mudug including nugaal ...then there is the reer mudug/hawd Daroods this is what commonly understood as Af-Daarood the essence of Daarood speech (Siyaad Bare Abdullahi Yusef Saacid Shirdoon speak it). Then there is Ogadeen accent of Galbeed you can tell them apart from Waqooyi Daarood and reer Mudug ...then there are the southern Daaroods some have mainted Af Daarood but majority have picked up waamo and other accents.

I can generally tell isaaqs or northern accents...the more west you go the more faster and indian sounding it gets. I like the habar jeclo/buhoodle accent...

[X.Playa]

When it comes to accent there is no such a thing called Ogaadeen vs waqooyi, you have to understand that Hargaysa is mere 80km from Jigjiga and there is no accent differnce that can be noticed by people from the south. In reality Jigjiga accent is closer to Hargaysa accent then Burco.

There is no accent difference in most of Hawd Daarood be it Ogaadeen, Majeerteen or even Marexaan. You are confusing accent with the political border of north and south and west.

For example there is no accent difference between Jidwaaq. Geri koombe ,Gedabursi and western Habar Awal . For you a person from the south wouldn't not be able to tell the difference between sheekhaal, reer isaaq and any Ciidagale in Aware -dhagaxbuur region.


In short there is no tribal accent. To a southern a Ciise will sound liek Isaaq even most of northern Daarood will sound to the average joe from the south as Isaaq. The southerns have this insane believe that Isaaq have a seprate accent from all somalis.

[sadeboi]

Listen I am not saying that Ogaden accent is only spoken by Ogadeen or Reer-Mudug only by Darood, but generally such an accent is synonymous with a clan and smaller clans that live by them pick up on that accent through interaction. I can tell between an Ogaden from Jigjiga and an Isaaq from Hargeisa...just like I can tell the accent of the sacad from galkacyo and the omur muxamoud or lelkase from Galkacyo...although the sacad is closer to them a Marexaan from Cabudwaaq is far more closer in lingo and we can tell they are hawiye. Just like I can generally tell that such a person is an Ogadeen from galbeedka...

[X.Playa]

Listen I am not saying that Ogaden accent is only spoken by Ogadeen or Reer-Mudug only by Darood, but generally such an accent is synonymous with a clan and smaller clans that live by them pick up on that accent through interaction. I can tell between an Ogaden from Jigjiga and an Isaaq from Hargeisa...just like I can tell the accent of the sacad from galkacyo and the omur muxamoud or lelkase from Galkacyo...although the sacad is closer to them a Marexaan from Cabudwaaq is far more closer in lingo and we can tell they are hawiye. Just like I can generally tell that such a person is an Ogadeen from galbeedka...

1- there is no clan accent.

2- ogaadeens are not from jigjiga thus have no jigjiga accent thus are not similar to hragaysa.

I can tell the accent of the sacad from galkacyo and the omur muxamoud or lelkase from Galkacyo...

You cant tell thats utter non sense they have the same accent.

Just like I can generally tell that such a person is an Ogadeen from galbeedka

Whats Galbeed to you? tell me the location of this Galbeed Ogaadeens that have a uniqe accent, is it Awaare, is it Fiiq, is it Wardher, Qabridhahare or Godey?

[sadeboi]

X.playa bal horta adeer ii waran...we have been on this forum together for a long time...but I can tell the sacad because no matter what they still have a bit the typical "hawiye" accent injected in their speech..most notably the pronunciation the J is the most distinct...and to be quite honest it might a Daarood bias...but all those lands minus wardheer are associated with Absame and anything from there is categorized as an Absame way including the accent...no you might be factually right but popular perception (Daarood perception at least in regards to my thinking) is an association with land and tribal origins...we do not associate a Daarood accent with Southern Daarood we say they simple adopted the garamgaram talk...we also associate Galbeed accent with Absame and claim other clans have adopted such talk...we associated the norther dialect with Isaq and norther "dirs" and simply see the Dhulbahante and Warsangali who speak like that as adopting such talk...we see the mudug-wardheer-hawd talk as the Daarood accent which generally the lelkase marexaan and majeertaan speak we can tell the difference between Daroods that live by them such as Og and Dhulo because though they live by they still carry slight accent of the northern or galbeed talk...

[Siciid85]

In every region in the former Somali republic apart from Bari, Nugaal and Sool Daroods make up a minority . The only way you can
tell a closest Darood accent is if the person hails from Bari/Nugaal and uses baayo, boowe iyo waxas. While living in a town a few years
back, me and a friend came across a Somali guy who moved to the town from Kenya who had that boowe accent, I immediately detected that
he hailed from Bari and a Darood. I was right after all he told me he was from Bosaso district especially Qaw, that is the only distinct closest Darood
accent. Were's accents like the Mudug accent of Dr Gaboose is broad and used by many clans. On the other hand Gedo, Jubboyiinka, central
regions contain too much Rahanweyn, Hawiye and Jareer dialect mixtures same goes for Somali Galbeed. Darood accent exists only in the unadulterated
isolated regions of Bari and Nugaal.


The various main Somali accents and who they are associated with.

Reer Waqooyi accent - Generally associated with Isaaq iyo wixi soo raca.

Reer Xamar accent & Xaayow - Generally associated with Hawiye & Reer Xamar.

Boowe/Baayo aka Reer Bari accent - Associated with the Darood clan especially the Majerteen iyo wixi soo raca(Harti Yaryar).

Af May May - Associated with Digil iyo Mirifle.


Other accents that originate from smaller groups in the south do exist but they are not as known as the above.