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Ok for the sake of culture , now the first stories were collected around 1898 by some dedicated German , the first 1-75 pages deal with somali stories regarding people , the Somali text on the left side Vs German text on the right. from page 75-100 some again somali tales of animals and from 100 to 120 some more people tales , the rest of the first book is somali pharses and tutorials.

http://archive.org/stream/somalitexte00 ... 0/mode/1up



The second book was wriiten 1900 and it has much more folk tales and animal tales also many somali provebrs, This second book at least skip the 75 to 80 pages , its the bibile translated into somali .

http://archive.org/stream/diesomalispra ... 7/mode/2up

let me guys know if you can recoginze some of the tales , let se if the somali oral memory was able to trasnmit these hundernds of years old tales.

Af soomaali la aqrin karooyo waaye, laakiin sheekooyika waas gaaban yihiin.

no the book is full for long once , but you have to look at both books, specially the second book, there is a long story of the lion interviewing , the cheetah , hyeana , lepord, and a jackal, 2 or 3 version of that episod along. The funny parts goes like this

Lion : hey you cheetah you are weak what do you do when people caught you eating their stock?

Cheetah" You are right am weak , as soon as am caught i start scraching left and right.

Lion: what about you hyeana you are weakj and coward too what do you do?

Hyeana: well am weak nad a coward , noce am caught i pertend the people are joking with me so i start to laugh and giggle.

and so on.

Another one goes like this :

Lion: tell me all of you which among the pepole you steal their animals you like the most?

Jackal: in my case i like teenag girls, they sit another a tree , leave the sheep/goats all alone while she is fixing her hair and thats when i get my best chance

it's actually readable, I'm gonna look at it when I get time. thanx for posting it

Sheeko aa kasooyo ama dareemooyo ama xasuusto weli meehaan ma ku qorno, laakiin waxaas ku xiran tahay deegaanka soomaaliya uus ka soo qoray.
Dad afsomaaliga si fiicaan u yaqaan lee tusooyaa maalmaha soo socdo. Haddiis waxyaqaan arko waas soo gudbinooyaa.


Afsoomaali waxaas la qoray 40 sano ka hore?????? jermalkaan aa isku deyey ma istiri. waliba koo la aqrin karo. ma xumo.

Naag afka carabta taqaan waa dhi.lo?

Caruur iridkaaga lama tuso= ciyaal la iskuma af baro
Ninka aan caano geel dhadhamin nin maaha

My fovarate so far

Somalidu waxey tidhaahdaa,

Ninka amarka weyn iyo ninka aan u ogayn waa col.
Baqeylka iyo deeqsiga waa col.
Fuleyga iyo geesiga waa col
Wadadka iyo ninka aan salaada tukan waa Col
Caruurta iyo ninka waalani waa Col so true we used to give hard time to the crazy ppl
Askarta iyo ninka u madaxda ah waa Col
Macalinka iyo Ardadu waa Col
Naagta quruxda badan iyo naagta foosha xun waa Col

This is very interesting Thanks for posting Xplayer so much reading to do later.

SareedoXareedo wrote:Sheeko aa kasooyo ama dareemooyo ama xasuusto weli meehaan ma ku qorno, laakiin waxaas ku xiran tahay deegaanka soomaaliya uus ka soo qoray.
Dad afsomaaliga si fiicaan u yaqaan lee tusooyaa maalmaha soo socdo. Haddiis waxyaqaan arko waas soo gudbinooyaa.


Afsoomaali waxaas la qoray 40 sano ka hore?????? jermalkaan aa isku deyey ma istiri. waliba koo la aqrin karo. ma xumo.

Af somaliga qoristiisa asalkiisu waa reer Galbeed , hada waxa meeshaas ku jira 2 somali dictionaries la qoray wakhtigaas , English-Somali dictionary of 1896 , somaliduna waxay ku leeyiin af somaliga waxa la qoray 1960's

Naag afka carabta taqaan waa dhi.lo?

yes i came accross that and its true, and the reason is simple since she is a somali nomad woman what else will make her learn Arabic to talk to coastal Arabs, (remebers Arabs always lived in the coast from Kismaayo to Zayla). Now perhabs al-shabaab needs to re-learn this proverb.

Do you know the history behind this line...colka wadhaf ma lagu dayay

Naagta af carab taqaan waa D****, yacni qofkoo shiisheeye la sheekeeyo qurux masoo wado. carab weligood shisheeye lee ahaayeen.

that was Lafa-Ruug battle mid 1700's near Berbera. they were planning and discussing since they are outnumbered what should they do and one man said that , and that was the idea that won them the battle ...henece Lafa-Ruug the battle of grinding Bones.

X.Playa wrote:that was Lafa-Ruug battle mid 1700's near Berbera. they were planning and discussing since they are outnumbered what should they do and one man said that , and that was the idea that won them the battle ...henece Lafa-Ruug the battle of grinding Bones.

Is there a book that deal with that story?

No just that proverb is one of the rare somali proverbs that are rememberred how it came about and the story behind it even to the person who utter it , there are few once like that survived the time. like "Dani-Waa-Seeto" by Ducaale Aftaag and "Dumar-Taad-Barataaba-B'an" by Guuleed Xaaji.

I heard few times how people were trapped under that mountain for century until the time of wadhaf. And when they came out they moved and cut through the land all the way to ethiopia.

Pushing back all those that inhabited the land.

SareedoXareedo wrote:Naagta af carab taqaan waa D****, yacni qofkoo shiisheeye la sheekeeyo qurux masoo wado. carab weligood shisheeye lee ahaayeen.

Sareedo haye kuwa afafka badan ku hadla hada ma la dhihi karaa sidaas, mise hada xaalka farahuu ka baxay.

Xplayer
I didn't expect that, but then again that is the oldest profession in the world, they must have seen what went down between some of their women and foreigners

Any idea who wrote that Somali? it is quite good.