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Probably Banadir since everyone lives there

I am,

Abdi "Or do you mean those that are native?" Johnson

Try again, btw name all of the dialects/languages as part of your answer.
edit: Yea natives.

Lower Shabelle? I don't have a list of the dialects but there's must be at least half a dozen groups that speak in different dialects.

Interesting, I wonder if my state is diverse in dialects......nevermind, just remembered we only two dialects ( reer bari dialect or reer waqooyi dialect). Shit, come to think of it, every state above Galkacayo has only two dialects. Then answer has to be a state in the South where there are lots of different qabiils living in it, so may be Jubbada Hoose? ( I'm thinking a city like Kismayo has to be the answer, cause they even have af may may spoken there on top of reer bari accent and reer xamar accent, right?) Fuck this, I yield my answer to Armaan, he probably knows more about this than I do.

GeoSeven wrote:Lower Shabelle? I don't have a list of the dialects but there's must be at least half a dozen groups that speak in different dialects.

I call bullshit on that, but I'm intrigued to find out more about this claim. Unless you're saying Banaadiri dialect is different from Baraawe/Marko dialect, which it kinda is, but its all reer xamar dialect to me. Sorry bro, that doesn't count.

I'm only assuming myself, let's wait for the answer

This is gonna be interesting..........

When everyone says my region is

AgentOfChaos wrote:

GeoSeven wrote:Lower Shabelle? I don't have a list of the dialects but there's must be at least half a dozen groups that speak in different dialects.

I call bullshit on that, but I'm intrigued to find out more about this claim. Unless you're saying Banaadiri dialect is different from Baraawe/Marko dialect, which it kinda is, but its all reer xamar dialect to me. Sorry bro, that doesn't count.

Agent: I have no idea how is ur knowledge of the South since your answer was in kista?

Lower Shabelle region is the most populous region in Somalia after Banadir and it is also the most diverse region. as geo said there r more than half a dozen distinct languages not dialects in that region including afgare, tuni, jiido, afbaraawe and many more

PrinceDaadi wrote: Agent: I have no idea how is ur knowledge of the South since your answer was in kista?

I don't even know what that means and neither do I understand you.

PrinceDaadi wrote:
Lower Shabelle region is the most populous region in Somalia after Banadir and it is also the most diverse region. as geo said there r more than half a dozen distinct languages not dialects in that region including afgare, tuni, jiido, afbaraawe and many more

Wow, lol, last time I checked "Af-Baraawe" is a dialect not a language.

Agent: dialect under which language ?

^lolwut? War Af-Soomaali ku hadal sxb waxaad isdaba dhigtay ma'fahmin ee adoo raali ah.

http://www.ethnologue.com/country/SO/languages

There are 13 living languages in Somalia.

Depending on where you divide the gobols, the one with the most diverstiy is either lower Shebelli or Middle or Lower Jubba. When I was there in the 60's. it seemed to me that the area of greatest diversity was Jamaame/Jilib, which today is sort of in between.

Grant wrote:http://www.ethnologue.com/country/SO/languages

There are 13 living languages in Somalia.

Is Af-Maymay in your list and it says its a language now? Oh hell no, I use to think it was foreign language different from Af-Soomaali too until I learned otherwise.

And did I see Swahili, Italian, Oromo, and English in your list? LOL ok then.