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Is it possible for the Nation of Poets to be Color blind? Is there a Somali word for blue? In Arabic the color blue is أزرق ( 'azraq ) In Amharic the color blue is ሰማያዊ (semayawī) But Af-Soomaali doesn't appear to have a word for the color blue, one of the most basic colors. Not only the...

Languages I know: Somali and English Languages that I'm currently learning: European Portuguese

These are a few words from the High East Cushitic languages, like Sidaamo The only ones I recognise are: Sidaamo - Somali Daadd "flow" - Daad "flood" Hadiyya - Somali Dagieera "monkey" - Daayeer "monkey" Burji - Somali Dax-aa/dagh "stone" - Somali "dhagax" Kambaata - Somali Far "finger" -...

...why Somalia is in the Arab League? I met an Eritrean family the other day and they started speaking to me in Arabic. I didn't know they were xabashi, I assumed they were Sudani. It got me thinking, why is Somalia considered an Arab country when we have our own language and customs and the...

https://waajid.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/maay-alphabet-english-version/ " The most recent attempt to transcribe Maay was carried out by the late Mustapha Sheikh who used the first Latin-based transcription. However, the first organized and systematic attempt to institutionalize the Alif-Maay...