Af Somali is going through a semetification process

[Periplus]

it's pretty simple to replace the language. somali right now has a low literacy rate. barely any television shows that kids watch. the only exposure people are getting for the Somali language is by people around them. just by changing loanwords and introducing them with exposure, will not have a huge negative impact on our society.

you are exaggerating the amount of loanwords. Somali existed prior to the loanwords. Somali was fully functioning. Rendille is a Somaloid language that split round 1790- 2228. yet it is still a working langauge even while having next to no Arabic loanwords.

Rendille is an almost extinct language bro, different levels.

There are people in schools that use Somali everyday. If you have went to school in Somalia or talked to students back home, you will realise the amount of loan words for technical terms.

For those kids, if you change the language even by 10% overnight, you are going to impact their learning as they are not going to understand their teachers properly. They are going to have to teach them the new words before teaching them their syllabus.

Also, think about the cost of replacing all the textbooks, signs etc.

 

[pirater]

Rendille is an almost extinct language bro, different levels.

There are people in schools that use Somali everyday. If you have went to school in Somalia or talked to students back home, you will realise the amount of loan words for technical terms.

For those kids, if you change the language even by 10% overnight, you are going to impact their learning as they are not going to understand their teachers properly. They are going to have to teach them the new words before teaching them their syllabus.

Also, think about the cost of replacing all the textbooks, signs etc.

it will be something that will happen over decades. technical terms definintly need to be replaced. and how long do you think teaching a new word would take. not many people go to school in Somalia. a minority do.

 

[faarax_mn]

Maay people have always said that there are less loan words in their dialect but abu yacni abu somalawii look down on a pure dialect for creole Somali.

We should look to Maay Maay for vocab

 

[Celery]

To add insult to injury all of the loan words are bastardized

 

[Mantiq_Al-gharb]

Our language is going through a semetification process. somali people tend to overuse and promote Arabic and English loan words when there are somali equivalents. Arabic has a massive influence on our language

It should be our number 1 priority to standardise the Somali language and remove all loanwords, even if there is no somali counterpart. if there is no somali counterpart we will make a word up. all the best languages make words up. We can't be proud of our language if Arabic and English infiltrates. We must preserve our proud Cushitic heritage and our language before the semites infiltrates and before we become just like the habeshas

Simple, just speak Somali the ways our ancestors used to via classical literature.

 

[Vanessa]

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