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I have nieces and nephews that are "half" Raxanweyn and Banadiri, I don't understand jack shit they say, I thought they spoke baby language but now they are 5-6 and they still going at it I realized they speak Maymay and strong Xamari accent, I speak standard Somali so you can see my problem . My mother, the kids Ayeeyo can speak both Maymay and that Xamari lingo as she lived in Xamar since the age of 3, the weird thing is they understand fully what I say, but I don't understand when they speak to each other or when they speak to my mother. My elder siblings have a working knowledge of Banadiri, MayMay culture and lingo, As a result I am cut out of whole conversations, it is annoying because it takes me back to my childhood days when I didn't speak Somali that well and all it took to cut me out was speak normal Somali.

Hell no, I was born in Xamar cadey, SOS, how can these westerners cut me off, this is bang out of order.

so you said your mom lived in xamar since she was 3, even speaks xamari and maymay, you were born there, and your sister or brother married a banadiri?

This really aint about your cousins eh?

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All my family members speak the typical ciyalka xafada accent regardless of their tribes. Midka reerkod woqiya ka imadi iyo kan Bay/Bakol waa iskuwada lahjaad.

Perfect_Order wrote:so you said your mom lived in xamar since she was 3, even speaks xamari and maymay, you were born there, and your sister or brother married a banadiri?

This really aint about your cousins eh?

what ? my cousin ? what ? none of my immediate cousins are banadiri or that sort, what the hell ya talking about boy.


BanadirBeauty, to be honest with you I hate that accent, uurgh, you just reminded me of my uncles and my aunts who speak that way, ciyaal boondeere they call themselves, uurgh, I also hate them. I love the fact that we have so many different accents/dialects in my family but to be frank, every time someone speaks Rer Xamar specially the guys, I burst out laughing, everyone should speak the way I speak first and foremost, Rer wuqooyi accent is worse they shout for no reason waa wax waalan, I have some Dhullos family but we control that shit by calming them down, how can you control Banadiri, subanalah..

standard Somali Swaaggg, rageeda, he call it Af-raadio in this video.