Af Somaali; coincidence, did they borrow the word or did we?

[BlackVelvet]

You know little words, like haa for example.

Surely we have a word for yes and even sax, someone could come along and say it comes from saxiix. So this is ridiculous. Surely we have a word for yes which is without a shadow of a doubt, ours.

I found out that apparently baati is foreign so I am (irrationally) pissed right now.

[Navy9]

Saxiix comes from sax, it seems the Somali language has many loan words and unfortunately it was not given enough time to reach maturity. Sometime back I was watching a South Korean movie and suddenly heard the word Waraan ie the Somali word for spear, I thought that was interesting.

[BlackVelvet]

What does it mean for a language to reach maturity?

We know for sure that Somalis have been around for just under 1,000 years in that same region. Probably longer. We must have had a way of saying Yes. Did we lose our language along the way?

[Bilis]

Somali has many loanwords from other Afro-Asiatic languages like Arabic. It also has some borrowed vocabulary terms from Farsi, Italian and English.

There were already Somali words for a lot of these items/things (except of course modern inventions like television). Through trade and interaction, these old terms just gradually gave way to new words from other languages.

[Cherine]

Haa is yes in Somali.
Sax is arabic

I always thought wayyo was interesting because of it's similarity to why.

[Chinaman]

would right/true be run? Like instead of saying Waa sax you could say waa run I suppose. Idk......

[Cherine]

Waa run, waa sidaas ..don't see any real need for the word 'sax' in Somali.

[hydrogen]

Sax is correct and run is truth...and haa is a yes....they are not interchangeable.

Did you take out the rubbish? "Sax" <- not a thing anyone says

[Bari14]

Xayawaanta, roti.......arabic and hindi respectively

[Cherine]

^you would say HAA waan saaray.

[Advo]

In the 4th grade I went to a 2 week camp at native american reservation, I remember that particular southern California tribe had so much similar words to us including "Haa" for yes (which I remember having a convo about).

[LobsterUnit]

Somali is key to understanding the Hebrew,Aramaic,etc.black solomonite exodus into Africa from Asia.

[Adali]

You know little words, like haa for example.

Surely we have a word for yes and even sax, someone could come along and say it comes from saxiix. So this is ridiculous. Surely we have a word for yes which is without a shadow of a doubt, ours.

I found out that apparently baati is foreign so I am (irrationally) pissed right now.

I know my geeljire counterparts in Caabudwaaq say Aahay for yes instead of haa.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

I have never used the word "sax". I always use "haa" or "waa runtaa". Anyway these are all examples linguistic coincidences. Like the japanese "anata" and arabic "anta".

[gurey25]

guys have you heard the malayalam word for "me"
its aniga

no kidding