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Somalis overwhelmingly prefer the demonym Somali over the incorrect Somalian since the former is an endonym, while the latter is an exonym with double suffixes. [62] The hypernym of the term Somali from a geopolitical sense is Horner and from an ethnic sense, it is Cushite. [63]
Somali is the official language of Somalia. It is the mother tongue of Somalis, the nation's most populous ethnic group. [26] The language is a member of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. [27] In addition to Somali, Arabic, which is also an Afroasiatic tongue, [28] is another official language in Somalia.
Somalia has an estimated population of 18.1 million, [18] [19] [20] of which 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. Around 85% of Somalia's residents are ethnic Somalis; the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic, though Somali is the primary language. Somalia has historic and religious ties to the Arab ...
Nationality describes the relationship of an individual to the nation under international law, whereas citizenship is the domestic relationship of an individual and the state. [5] [6] [Notes 1] Somali nationality is typically obtained under the principle of jus soli, i.e. by birth in Somalia, or jus sanguinis, born to parents with Somali ...
Somali culture; Somali cuisine; Proto-Somali, the ancestors of modern Somalis; Somali, plural of Somalo, former Somali currency; Somali Plate, a tectonic plate which covers the eastern part of Africa; Somalia, a country in the Horn of Africa; Somaliland, an unrecognised state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as de jure part of ...
Ethnic Somali people (13 C, 262 P) Somali Bantu (5 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Somalia" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The Rahanweyn (Maay: Reewin, Somali: Raxanweyn, Arabic: رحنوين), also known as the Digil and Mirifle (Somali: Digil iyo Mirifle) is a major Somali clan. It is one of the major Somali clans in the Horn of Africa, with a large territory in the densely populated fertile valleys of the Jubba and Shebelle rivers and the areas inbetween, which ...
Somali nationalism (Somali: Soomaalinimo) is a nationalist ideology advocating for the unification of all Somali people who share a common ethnicity, language, and culture, under a single banner.