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Somalis constitute the largest ethnic group in Somalia, at approximately 98% of the nation's inhabitants. [9] They are organized into clan groupings, which are important social units; clan membership plays a central part in Somali culture and politics. Clans are patrilineal and are typically divided into sub-clans, sometimes with many sub ...
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The Somali language is spoken by ethnic Somalis in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora. Somali language books on display. Somali dialects are divided into three main groups: Northern, Benadiri, and Maay. Northern Somali (or Northern-Central Somali) forms the basis for Standard Somali.
In the words of Soviet politician Anastas Mikoyan, the Soviet Union was "creating and organising new nations" [69] The government of the U.S.S.R. was eager to get ethnic data for many ethnic groups in order to create republics and autonomous regions for many of these ethnic groups and nationalities, and later on (under Joseph Stalin) in order ...
Pages in category "Ethnic Somali people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 262 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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The 1997 national census reported a total population for this zone of 476,881 in 72,010 households, of whom 260,589 were men and 216,292 were women; 44,819 or 9.1% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Liben was the Somali (99.04%); a slightly smaller share spoke Somali (97.78%). Only 12,085 or 7.72% were ...