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The West convinced the third world that they are the best and that their system of society is universal. The Chinese lack this universalist attitude. I think I was born in the wrong age. Really want to see the world not dominated by the West. Lots of things we take for granted is actually not...

@kickz @Khonsu @TekNiKo Damn, he was born in 1971? 50 years old!? Looks young for his age. I would have believed 35. Usually cadaans age like shit, surprised.

Are you sure about this? I remember reading from a history book that the elite of the Adal Sultanate legitimately mostly spoke Arabic, while this wasn't the case in any of the other Somali sultanates. Arabic spread in non-Arab regions due to the working class mimicking the elite. That's how...

@The alchemist In Belgium itself ironically French still has an aura of prestige about it among the Flemish, despite their part of the country being economically more dominant than the French part for several decades now. Many of the Francophone cities in Southern Belgium look like European...

I know, but it is about the fact that they did it. Regular Somalis have the attitude you mentioned, but our ruling elite are a bunch of coons on the payroll of the EU/USA/UK etc. Many other African countries are politically more anti-Western than Somalia, I don't think we even crack the top 8.

The brutality of the Belgians (Leopold) can be used as propaganda against French in DRC and to replace it for an African lingua franca. In DRC it will be either Lingala, Kikongo, or Swahili, but I hope they pick Lingala. Sahelian French countries also have geopolitical issues with France, but...

I hope DRC Congo becomes the SSA superpower. Nigeria has demographic problems (overpopulation, religious and macro-level ethnic diversity). Congo lacks macro ethnic diversity (only has micro ones, which can be overcome) and no macro religious diversity either. It also has more natural...

I have no idea, don't speak a word of it, besides the Lion King meme phrases. Genuinely don't like it as a language and it has a terrible origin story. I hope Lingala becomes the Bantu lingua franca and not Swahili. At least Lingala has a nice origin story and emerged as a lingua franca...

Yep, if you want to create a conlang, you have to stick to a single language family. Otherwise it will look ugly af and make no sense. For example, look into Lingwa de Planeta (it mixed Arabic, Mandarin, European languages, Swahili, Hindi). It looks horrendous as a result.

Only for the next 20-40 years max. Once China is truly the hegemon, it will no longer be.

True, but their national ethos is ''we wuz never colonized'' cementing anti-Westerness even more into their identity. Orthodox Christians also have a tendency to look at Catholicism and Protestantism with disdain.

Mixing unrelated language families is unwieldy. If Esperanto was solely based on Romance, it would have looked better (like Interlingua does). Mixing Romance and Slavic is just weird. Many of the language nerds/polyglots don't like Esperanto. It has no future.

Adal Sultanate used Arabic as a lingua franca. They also had a stronger need to learn Arabic to communicate with Afars, Hararis, and Muslim Oromos. The more isolated Hartis had no need to use Arabic besides the handful of tradesmen and religious clerics.

It is not grammatically simple. It has a notorious case system and is harder in this aspect than even German. I think its phonology/pronunciation sounds childish, not necessarily it being a simple language grammatically.

It sounds childish with its frequent usage of words like mimi nini wiwi kiki etc. Somali is better.

@Qeelbax That's what I don't get about Pan-Africanists who promote Swahili as the lingua franca for all of Africa? They hate European languages for the looting, slavery, mistreatment etc., but ignore the fact that Swahili emerged out of the Arab slave trade and started off as a pidgin between...

They recently re-activated radio broadcasting in Italian in Mogadishu. The ruling class of Somalia is not anti-Western.

@The alchemist One more thing on Somali HG lineages, this one is really weird, a Somali HG lineage that is tied to Malagasies in the last 8,100 years (relatively close). https://www.yfull.com/mtree/L3a-a1/ Either Malagasies dropped by the lower Jubba coast and slightly admixed with Somaloids...

The Kenyan HGs are barely similar to Ethiopian HGs. The Hadza are also quite different from Kenyan LSA HGs. The Mbuti are extremely different from all the aforementioned as well. HGs tend to have huge genetic diversity compared to agricultural populations. Look at this Somali HG maternal...

A clever geopolitical expert I follow says that the next major escalation Russia will do is cut internet cables in the Atlantic and Pacific. Maybe it is wise to buy some additional computer memory storage devices now while prices are low. Likely this will skyrocket if this happens. Maybe load...