does anyone speak it? It seems very interesting. Also how many Somalis speak it? Is it spoken by certain tribes?
Af maay maay
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Wrong ! Mostly spoken by Rahanweyn.Some Bantus speak it , but they also have other dialects .
Who are Raxanweyn? What's their origin? I thought they were a sub-clan of Hawiye.
Why is it called Maay and what does that mean?
You need to 1 week somnet qabil crash course .
Theyre a major clan but unlike hawiye darod Isaaq etc they are not Nomads but farmers instead.
I don't wanna go blind though...plus I lack context there. I was reading about Dhulbahante sub-clans the other day and they somehow added Hawiye in there.
How are they Somali? They are farmers with a different language. I'm going to guess they were another ethnic group who were assimilated?
Is it me or Rahanweyn have absorbed a lot of bantus? Everytime I see a picture of Rahanweyn, they look very Bantu. Is that a correct assumption?
Maay Maay is often mistaken as Bantu Somali. It is spoken by D+M populations of Somalia, and in their region, there is Bantu presence.
Maay Maay is a lowland east Cushitic language, my friend speaks it and he is not Bantu.
It is the closest language other than Somali that is related to Somali. (They have a special constant which is not found in the Somali language, I do not know how to pronounce it)
Here is a sample: (they are not Christians)
Maay Maay is a lowland east Cushitic language, my friend speaks it and he is not Bantu.
It is the closest language other than Somali that is related to Somali. (They have a special constant which is not found in the Somali language, I do not know how to pronounce it)
Here is a sample: (they are not Christians)
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Raxanwein is a linguistic union of Af May May speakers and Farmers.
Bantus speak Musinguli which is a Bantu language, Af may may is an older Proto Somali Cushitic language
"Raxanwein is majority Digil&Mirifle
The Digil sub-clan mainly consists of farmers and coastal people, while the Mirifle are predominantly nomadic pastoralists."
"The speakers of Mai Terreh (also known as Mai-Mai or Af-Maay) are the Rahanweyn, while the speakers of Maxaa Tiri (i.e. Standard Somali) belong to other clans (Darod, Dir, Hawiye and Isaaq"
Raxanwein is a linguistic union of Af May May speakers and Farmers.
Bantus speak Musinguli which is a Bantu language, Af may may is an older Proto Somali Cushitic language
"Raxanwein is majority Digil&Mirifle
The Digil sub-clan mainly consists of farmers and coastal people, while the Mirifle are predominantly nomadic pastoralists."
"The speakers of Mai Terreh (also known as Mai-Mai or Af-Maay) are the Rahanweyn, while the speakers of Maxaa Tiri (i.e. Standard Somali) belong to other clans (Darod, Dir, Hawiye and Isaaq"
They have origins to Saab, brother of Samaale I think. I got a raxanweyn relative.
about the case than RX are mixed I really don't think so, Geledi (RX subclan) used to be high ranking generals in the Ajuuran days and after the Ajuuran Empire fell the had their Sultanate for a couple of centuries, Jeraar do live in the riverine areas and don't get treated as harshly as in the rest of Somalia but large scale mixing doesn't happen with them.
I might be wrong but I would say its a dialect since you can hear some Somali words in it but because it's spoken very fast it is hard to understand
Af maymay has more consonants than af somali. Its two different languages.
in somali "Lahjad" means dialect, wouldnt it be lahjada maymayda? And not af maymay.
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If af maay maay is a different language what gives you the right to call your language Somali, since it would imply that rahanweyn are not Somalis.
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The difference between language and dialect is often political. I can understand Af May, so it's Somali.
I have a made a thread on this a while back regarding their consonant/vowel structure and alphabetical system.
https://www.somalispot.com/threads/...o-maxaa-tiri-written-in-roman-alphabet.18163/
It's a language under the Somali family but for political reasons it was deem to be a dialect. Look at cantonese and mandarin for example. A reason why maay speakers were skeptical over the union of the south and north.
https://www.somalispot.com/threads/...o-maxaa-tiri-written-in-roman-alphabet.18163/
It's a language under the Somali family but for political reasons it was deem to be a dialect. Look at cantonese and mandarin for example. A reason why maay speakers were skeptical over the union of the south and north.
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