favorite vs worst somali accent

[Knowthyself]

y'all should provide examples of the accents for those of us who don't know next time

 

[waraabe]

y'all should provide examples of the accents for those of us who don't know next time

If u don't know you shouldn't be commenting

 

[Knowthyself]

If u don't know you shouldn't be commenting

next time you feel the need to quote me, don't.

 

[Nabeel786]

Somali clan's accent.

Abgaal: Muluqyo. igaar.
Xawadle: Eemboow. Bacowgan cuurka leg.
Habargidir: Jaamacal qur'anka walee iyo bilee. Cabdalle iyo cawareero.

Majeerten: Are bowe makaa dhab baa
Ogaden: Agah. Owowgii la hun

And more...

 

[Gibiin-Udug]

Macanoow you're the moos to my bariis, the hilib Ari to my maraq, the xalwa to my kaxwa. Mar kasto Aan ku arko wadnaha dhag dhag I dhaahow.



Ari boowe maxa meshaan kadhacaya.

 

[Nabeel786]

wrong thread bud

Lolol. I delleted.

 

[Reign]

Any accent that I'm not used to sounds weird to me. I like the standard south accent, I don't like the northern accents nor the abgaal/reer lamar accents or the rahanweyn accents.

 

[Bahal]

my mom and her family are from beidoa

their accent is so nice and soft

my uncles half sound like they're singing. thoroughly beta-male status, but nice all the same.

but that hardly feels like an accent, more like a method of speaking.

 

[Bahal]

I like all the accents tbh, i appreciate the diversity and it's always good for a laugh when two Somalis are thoroughly confused by each other

 

[Nabeel786]

Naaya. Waryaa. Yaroow.

Southie: Dooro. North: Digaag.

Hawiye: Xeey tahay. Xaa rabtaa

Darood: Waa maxay. Heedhe muxuu yidhi

iidoor: Waaxeey. Waar noow

 

[BebsiBolice]

Afgoye sounds weird, af may may and the northern accent too.

 

[Nabeel786]

Reer wanla weyn: Ariirtey meey ki daarey

 

[BebsiBolice]

And sweet words. I've heard the following sorry for spelling

Macanto
Sokorow,
Lulo
Caddey
Indwo roon

And I think it's super romantic when a man calls his wife abayoo and she calls him abowee. It's just something sweet about it.

 

[Apollo]

All these divergent dialects in greater Somalia are caused by low literacy rates and a lack of a strong central authority regulating the language through the education system.

The media isn't helping either, as every fucktard spells how he wants.

 

[Suxuufi]

Southie: qawdhanow baahi ba ihaya

North: baahi ah? Warya iikirow sawtu ilaahi nolosha kunimceyey

south:aboowe nolosha uman jeedin, yacni rashiin aan dalbano nooh.

North: wuxuu garacsana, niinyo maxaad gaajo odhan waydey. Ninkii calooleh ilaahi ha mahad celiyo, kaaguna dhulkaad kujiideysa.

 

[Bahal]

There's Galbeed, Waqooyi has a few accents, Reer Bari accent, Reer Mudug accent, Banaadiri, "xaayo" accent, Waamo accent, anything missing?

 

[John Michael]

There's Galbeed, Waqooyi has a few accents, Reer Bari accent, Reer Mudug accent, Banaadiri, "xaayo" accent, Waamo accent, anything missing?

Hiran has an accent, there's 10 different accents in lower shabelle alone. In NFD I know there's at least three, reer jilib and jamaame have accents that most here wouldn't understand, jabouti has their own unique accent.


Then there's like several different versions of maay.

I doubt anyone has heard even half of the accents tho because muqdishu, gaalcakyo and hargeisa are probably the accents mostly heard in the media.

 

[Suxuufi]

I would say every city has its own distinct accent/ words/ slang. Galkacyo garowe & bosaaso are all diff. Same with laascanood burco erigabo.

 

[John Michael]

Fave accent: xamar (all versions)
Followed closely by jubboyinka accents (easiest for me to understand and they speak in a soft spoken gentle way)

Least fave: I hate the excessive use of dh it's sounds like af Hindi, but otherwise I don't mind any accent.

On second thought: say Wallahi diaspora somali makes me cringe so I'll go with this.