Does Your Somali Accent Change Sometimes?

[Hodan from HR]

My family speaks mainstream somali but I've noticed I pick accent/ lahjad depending on which somalis I hang out with. My housemates are Isaaq and lately, my somali sounds more like reer waqoyi. I went to our local somali store to buy some new dirac for summer and the habaryar there is like, "Are you heblayo's daughter?" Heblayo being my new friends' mother..


This one summer, I visited my abti and his wife is reer xamar. When I came back home, my family was like, "what is wrong with your af somali? Maxaad iska yeelyee leysaa?"


I can't wait to hang out with somalis who speak af may may so I can be a true transqabil hehe...

Anyone else?

 

[Amazonian]

 

[greyhound stone]

Nah my family is only issaq. My somali accent is strictly reer waqoyi. If you speak another dialect of somali just speak English. I can only understand waqoyi somali ngl. My somali is mediocre. I can have a conversation and all but I can't articulate myself very well. I have to speak broken English with somali sometimes.

 

[Netflix]

My family speaks mainstream somali but I've noticed I pick accent/ lahjad depending on which somalis I hang out with. My housemates are Isaaq and lately, my somali sounds more like reer waqoyi. I went to our local somali store to buy some new dirac for summer and the habaryar there is like, "Are you heblayo's daughter?" Heblayo being my new friends' mother..


This one summer, I visited my abti and his wife is reer xamar. When I came back home, my family was like, "what is wrong with your af somali? Maxaad iska yeelyee leysaa?"


I can't wait to hang out with somalis who speak af may may so I can be a true transqabil hehe...

Anyone else?

You can never pick up af maay-maay the shits a different language.

 

[Netflix]

My family speaks mainstream somali but I've noticed I pick accent/ lahjad depending on which somalis I hang out with. My housemates are Isaaq and lately, my somali sounds more like reer waqoyi. I went to our local somali store to buy some new dirac for summer and the habaryar there is like, "Are you heblayo's daughter?" Heblayo being my new friends' mother..


This one summer, I visited my abti and his wife is reer xamar. When I came back home, my family was like, "what is wrong with your af somali? Maxaad iska yeelyee leysaa?"


I can't wait to hang out with somalis who speak af may may so I can be a true transqabil hehe...

Anyone else?

Also it ain’t reer xamar it’s reer koonfur.

 

[Hodan from HR]

Also it ain’t reer xamar it’s reer koonfur.

My family also speaks konfur somali.
I'm half hawiye half darood, a bi-qabil walalo

Reer xamar I mean the cadcad somali people. They speak differently than mainstream konfur accent

 

[Netflix]

My family also speaks konfur somali.
I'm half hawiye half darood, a bi-qabil walalo

Reer xamar I mean the cadcad somali people. They speak differently than mainstream konfur accent

Are u majeerteen and Habar Gidir ?

 

[Hodan from HR]

Are u majeerteen and Habar Gidir ?

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@Hodan from HR
You’re turning into a lying squirrel this isn’t good abaayo.

 

[Netflix]

@Hodan from HR Sorry @Basra jinni possessed me there

 

[Material]

Could understand grandad who came from galmadug and mum who speaks the mainstream xamar one

 

[Hodan from HR]

@Hodan from HR
You’re turning into a lying squirrel this isn’t good abaayo.
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Allow it fam.
I plan to adopt a child from every qabil.
I'll make an awesome hoyo since I'm inclusive and no one knows my real qabil

 

[Material]

Allow it fam.
I plan to adopt a child from every qabil.
I'll make an awesome hoyo since I'm inclusive and no one knows my real qabil

Transqabil based.

 

[Jaydaan]

My family also speaks konfur somali.
I'm half hawiye half darood, a bi-qabil walalo

Reer xamar I mean the cadcad somali people. They speak differently than mainstream konfur accent

You got the best of everything. DNA from two main qabil and the accent from the cool northerners. I usually just imitate whoever I am with.

 

[Netflix]

Allow it fam.
I plan to adopt a child from every qabil.
I'll make an awesome hoyo since I'm inclusive and no one knows my real qabil

And I can be the Aabo to them kids.

 

[Hodan from HR]

You got the best of everything. DNA from two main qabil and the accent from the cool northerners. I usually just imitate whoever I am with.

Thanks @Jaydaan

I pick accents easily, even non-somali ones. Sometimes it is subconscious. I dont even realize it until people point it out to me

 

[Netflix]

Thanks @Jaydaan

I pick accents easily, even non-somali ones. Sometimes it is subconscious. I dont even realize it until people point it out to me

@Hodan from HR What your diaspora

 

[greyhound stone]

@Hodan from HR What your diaspora

She said she's reer henny.

 

[Netflix]

She said she's reer henny.

@Hodan from HR can you confirm

 

[Hodan from HR]

@Hodan from HR can you confirm

Canada, Yes.
Reer henny, No