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Speech sample in Standard Somali. 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
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.
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 Somalia; Somali Region, a Somali-inhabited region of Ethiopia
Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics. [1] [2] Different countries have different classifications and census options for race and ethnicity/nationality which are not comparable with data from other countries.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Ethnic Somali people (13 C, 262 P) Somali Bantu (5 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Somalia" The following 26 pages are in ...
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 .
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 Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland.They were followed by students pursuing higher studies in the 1960s and 1970s, by the late 1970s through the late 1980s and early 1990s more Somalis arrived.