Who has better afsomali north or south

[Voltage]

get it right kids...it's not sharabaadho...there's no dh, the word is sharabaado and it comes from the arabic language. the worst somali is no doubt spoken in the south and it improves incrementally as you move northward until you come to djibouti where it is found in its purest form

Xasbuna laah wa nicmal wakiil...so this is what they mean beauty is in the eyes of the beholder? Ciise iyo habar awal who are half canfar baa la yiri they speak the purest somali

[Voltage]

get it right kids...it's not sharabaadho...there's no dh, the word is sharabaado and it comes from the arabic language. the worst somali is no doubt spoken in the south and it improves incrementally as you move northward until you come to djibouti where it is found in its purest form

bullsh!t, you lot speak some weird qaldaan sh!t with Somalised French words

I think Italian and Somali mix better which is why the af Somali in the South sounds better to that in the north.


I like af maay, more people should learn that...I definitely will

Eyes, I get surprised every day. I would never have imagine "aw-guuryo" was italian until recently hearing it in Italian

Burunto scorso, jardiino, policia militaare, filyada kaano, even the name Fartun is Italian based coming from Fortunato

[Alluring]

South North

Gun Money

[Shirib]

Maay maay is far more closer to Jiido an offshoot of Oromia. Its a both related to Somali (Maay,Maay &Oromia)

Have u ever heard Jiida? It is nothing like maay maay.

Somali goes into maay and maxaa tiri and thats all she wrote

[Skippa]

Nah still Somali, just a different dialect

I don't know about that brother...there's no mutual intelligibility with other dialects of somali...besides, somalidu wey kibir badantahaye ha is hoos dhigin...you have to proudly proclaim your may may as a separate and equal language...check out this vid and see what I'm talking about

[King-of-Awdal]

Ill be honest i had never heard of af maay maay until i came to SNET. I always thought people spoke Northern Dialect or Hamarii. One thing that bug's me the most is when someone say's hey give me this geed when reffering to anything.

[Shirib]

Nah still Somali, just a different dialect

I don't know about that brother...there's no mutual intelligibility with other dialects of somali...besides, somalidu wey kibir badantahaye ha is hoos dhigin...you have to proudly proclaim your may may as a separate and equal language...check out this vid and see what I'm talking about

I know maay people who do claim it is a different language but I really don't believe it is, just a different dialect. I don't know about that video, I understand maay maay so my opinion on it might be different from a person who doesn't

[Grant]

Note that the South has long had a mix of linguistic traditions:

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

I have always been under the impression that Woqoyi was the standard Somali. To my ear, ALL of the southern dialects sound like separate languages. Both vocabulary and grammatical construction vary so much.

The strange thing here is that the archaeological record seems to show a South to North migration Pattern, contradicting the oral tradition. It may be well to remember here that those who became the Somali people worshipped Waaq in pre-Islamic times and probably thought of themselves as Oromo. The Galla are just the Oromo who rejected Islam.

If you accept the archaeological record, then Woqoyi is most likely a subset of a Rahanweyn language, additionally influenced by Oromo as the migration proceeded North, and then influenced by Arabic.

My suspicion is that the southern dialects are less influential than Woqoyi because there is such a mish-mash there.

[Voltage]

^When people talk about North/South, we are not talking about Jiddo, Dabarre, Tunni, May Maay, and the rest of those languages.

In the article you posted Somali as we know it is called Common or Northern Somali.

We are talking about the different accents within that "common" or "northern Somali".

The Isaaq accents vs. Mudug accents vs. Abgaal accents.

Not the standard Somali we all speak compared to Tunni and May May.

The strange thing here is that the archaeological record seems to show a South to North migration Pattern, contradicting the oral tradition. It may be well to remember here that those who became the Somali people worshipped Waaq in pre-Islamic times and probably thought of themselves as Oromo.

I don't eve know where to start.

Do I start with the fictual archeological claim (Grant is using the linguistic model which says where there is greatest diversity is the origin of the language) to claiming Waaq is a specific deity and not an old proto-Afro Asiatic word for God (waaq in Arabic واق also means protector which is one of God's attributes) to claiming that not only did older Somalis practice that specific deity but we were also Oromo because of it.

I honestly don't even know where to start.

[dynamic]

qaldan accent sounds good on the girls , the niggas sound like pakis .. doh dah deh

[Skippa]

Xasbuna laah wa nicmal wakiil...so this is what they mean beauty is in the eyes of the beholder? Ciise iyo habar awal who are half canfar baa la yiri they speak the purest somali

wa kaa kibirkaan hadal hayaa

Voltage, it's cafar btw and have you ever met one such (cafar) person? waxa suurtowda adiga iyo qaamuskaaga jeebka kuugu jira in afka lagugu iibsado

[Hawo Tako]

@ this thread.

[GENERAL_SNM]

Bottom line is every mofocker and his aunt wants to talk like they from Burco.

Waqooyi accent...Isaaq dhullo warsan and northern oagdeen basically the people who wrote most somali literature, gabays, songs..etc.

[Voltage]

waxa suurtowda adiga iyo qaamuskaaga jeebka kuugu jira in afka lagugu iibsado

Horta ma aan ku fahim but aren't you supposed to say "jidha". Hada yaa iska dhigdhigayaa waxaan afkiisa soo marin?

[rich-boy]

what burco u mean with hand gestures if this was a challenge woqooyi will win u know what reer konfureed call a football banuni thats not even somali fam fuckin italian word u had to go steal words from the italians