How can you say torba doesn't sound like Somali 7 because of a few different letter's? Idiot. Oromo borrowed half of these words off Amharic. they share these proto words with Arabic.paperino wrote: Wed May 17, 2017 2:34 pm1, 6, 7 and 10 don't seem similar. Oromo itself has a lot of Arabic vocabulary. Example:St8OuttaDirree wrote: Wed May 17, 2017 11:12 am There are more a lot of common words we share in Afan oromo and af-Somali.
i will give a little example, our numbers..
Takka - 1
Lama - 2
Sadi - 3
Afur - 4
Shan - 5
Ja'ha - 6
Torba - 7
Sadeet - 8
Sagal - 9
Qudan - 10.
Monday: dafinoo / ojja duree
Tuesday: facaasaa
Wednesday: roobii
Thursday: kamisa
Friday: jimaata
Saturday: sambata xinnaa / sambata duraa
Sunday: dilbata / sambata guddaa
http://ilanguages.org/oromo_vocabulary.php
Check the link, including fruits and vegetables.
Stop trying to make Somali sound like it's Arabic's identical twin language. Loanwords don't count, you look at cognates. The word for father in Arabic and Somali is an example of a cognate, Somali didn't borrow it off Arabic but they share this from a proto ancestor.
The quicker you start understanding this the smarter your arguments will become.