Which Somali dialect?

[sahal80]

Classical somali/af sugan is spoken in waqooyi iyo galbeed-from burco to jigjiga and to some point shabelle woreda of ethiopia regardless of their clans-

You got kaariye one of the best somali poets who was awkhodob-galbeed-

Even central poets like yamyam was born in hargeysa that why we can't understand him

Like this song


Also sangob was based in hargeysa

This is why hobolada waabari was based in hargeysa too for having poets like hadrawi, aw farax etc

Manhajka waxbarashada was based on galgaduud dialect since it was more understood by most of the regions

Thus, it was the standard dialect or the standardized dialect.

[abdikarim86]

The Northern Dialect is the purest Somali ...everything else is a deviation from it.
Accents on the other hand are not so important.

Someone can still speak proper Somali and sound like he is from Xamar or
somewhere south.

Anyone else notice how Af-Soomaali becomes more debased the more South and West you go.

[SultanOrder]

The purest dialect is Af May May, because it is least adulterated by loan words from other languages. Every other form of Af Maxaa Tiri is full of Arabic words especially the northerners, and English/Italian/French. They also have the "Xa" "Ca" and "Kha" which are totally foreign to original Somali, hence why Af May May speakers have a difficult time pronouncing them.

BTW we are totally abusing the word dialect, somali has only two dialects that is Af maxaa tiring and Af may may, and even that is pushing it for most linguists. Somalis have only different accents which is just a variation of how one pronounces the same words. That is why any native somali speaker can be placed anywhere in greater somali and be understood.

An example of different dialects is Arabic or German, where local forms won't be understood by someone else speaking the local form somewhere else. Someone in Morocco wont understand someone in Iraq without referring to a standard form.

[Smile-LiKe-SuN-RiSE]

Mudug + Galbeed= sexy

[lasanodboi]

Sool dialect

[Togdeer]

Togdheer accent, the most manly somali dialect.

[GAMES]

The media sets the standards when it comes to official accents and what people expect. From VoA, to BBC, to all the TV channels and the thousands of other Somali news outlets.

And it's mostly Galmudug/Mudug iyo Gobolada dhexe accents.

[LightAtNight]

Standard Somali sounds neutral, professional and reasonable

[AbkoowDhiblaawe]

waqooyi accent is hard for xamarawis to understand and vice versa. Therefore Mudug/Galgaduud is the standard somali. Not that hard for xamarawis to understand same goes to reer waqooyis.

[Substance]

Mudug accent is standard somali but if we are talking about "pure" somali then its af maymay since it dont have loanwords from arabic or italian nor english, its purely cushtic.

[GAMES]

waqooyi accent is hard for xamarawis to understand and vice versa. Therefore Mudug/Galgaduud is the standard somali. Not that hard for xamarawis to understand same goes to reer waqooyis.

I understand Waqooyi accent just fine, it's just there aren't too many of em in the media or Somali movies. And the few from Waqooyi that work there, mostly speak with a standard Somali accent.

It's a business, and you want someone that ur viewers and readers can understand and relate to.

Abdi Good is the only nationally recognized Waqooyi in the mainstream media. Even though he sometimes comes across as the stereotypical Qaldaan who got off from 3 days of Khat binge.

[ZubeirAwal]

Somalis can't even agree on this, let every tribesman declare his lahjad to be the purest.

[xaliye123]

Nin walba qumaniisa qoorta ugu jira.

Somaliga saxda ah waxaa lagaga hadlaa galbeed. Doollo,Jarar,Qoraxay,Faafan,Shabeele,Nogob Afdheer iyo Sitti ama shiniile inta kale waa talyaani, ingiriis iyo carabi.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

You expect me to believe the gibberish Maki Xaji Banaadir comes out with is Standard Somali? GTFOH

The language of fanka, heeso and sugaan has always been Rer Waqooyi dialect.

Somalis will argue about everything. smh

[sahal80]

Before doing some dialect comparisons, you must have background of cultural literacy

Maay is kinda semitic to us, example if you want to know the root of an arabic word, you have to go back to its semitic trilateral root-al awzan- be it habashi or himyari or cibri

This doeasnt mean that habashi is the pure arabic since its older than the arabic language 10 times!

This is why a lot of people wrongly think yemenis being arabs too!

If you want to know what means harti, hiraab and so on go back to maay, it means a man, a morning

If you only got arabic words go back to it, that's it!

Language and culture are inseparable, so, the somali standard language is the daughter of the somali pastoral culture

In this way, waqooyi and galbeed have the pioneer dialect

If you listen to the song I posted written by yamyam, it reflects the puruest form of the nomadic life

No maay can have this poetic sensibility/الصور الشعرية like he did in there

Modug accent was seen as proper and acceptable, therefore was standardized but its not the classical one.