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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. [63] The hypernym of the term Somali from a geopolitical sense is Horner and from an ethnic sense, it is Cushite. [64]
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
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. [69] The hypernym of the term Somali from a geopolitical sense is Horner and from an ethnic sense, it is Cushite. [70]
Somali Peninsula, a region of East Africa, also known as "The Horn of Africa" Somalis, an inhabitant or ethnicity associated with Greater Somali Region Greater Somalia; Somali language, a Cushitic language; Somali culture; Somali cuisine; Proto-Somali, the ancestors of modern Somalis; Somali, plural of Somalo, former Somali currency
Map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated in at least one census since 1991 [needs update]. Many countries and national censuses currently enumerate or have previously enumerated their populations by race, ethnicity, nationality, or a combination of these characteristics.
Most Somali songs are pentatonic; that is, they only use five pitches per octave in contrast to a heptatonic (seven note) scale such as the major scale. Somali art is the artistic culture of the Somali people, both historic and contemporary. These include artistic traditions in pottery, music, architecture, wood carving and other genres.
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.
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.