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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.
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.
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 .
Ethnic groups in Somalia (5 C, 26 P) Expatriates in Somalia (17 C, 1 P) I. Immigrants to Somalia (1 C, 1 P) Immigration to Somalia (2 P) S. Demographics of Somaliland ...
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 ...
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 ...
While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...