Groups of Rendille in Rural Kenya Reverting to Islam through Dawah by Somali Sheikhs

[World]

That timeline is questionable and languages split don’t necessarily does not mean groups can not have family/ deep tribal links. AF May and Maxa Tiri are a good example.

Linguistically that’s how long the split has been calculated.

And while they are a stand alone own ethnic group, they seemed to have lived adjacent to Somali tribes and had the same camel herding culture as the Somali tribes near them. Oromo, on the other hand, went to live in the highlands and compelled cut off from Somalis.

The Rendille also incorporated some Somali Muslim migrants into their group. This is where the confusion about claims regarding an Islamic past comes from. Some of the were Muslim in the past, not all of them.

Culturally they are closer to Nilotic groups than somalis, such as the Samburu and Masai. They’ve assimilated a lot of their practices and traditions, even to their clans. Anyway they’re an ooga booga tribe that only numbers 65,000 i don’t know why somalis care so much about them when we’re 30 million.

 

[The Oponian Guild]

The oday talked about it, he said they believe their ancestors ate baqti and the Somalis outcasted them.

They’re not descended from Somalis, they share proto somaloid origins with modern Somalis (5qabils + Gabooye), they probably pre date the pre hawiye somali movements south by 500-100 years, they went southwards quite early, yet their language is quite close.

 

[The Oponian Guild]

They’re not descended from Somalis, they share proto somaloid origins with modern Somalis (5qabils + Gabooye), they probably pre date the pre hawiye somali movements south by 500-100 years, they went southwards quite early, yet their language is quite close.

1000*

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

They're Cushitic, not Somali.

I can't wait to see which desperate clan will adopt them for expansion purposes, we all know it's coming.

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

Somali sheikhs in Kenya are helping to convert them the rendile language is very similar to Somali

 

[Khaemwaset]

Mashallah these lost somalis are coming back. Inshallah other lost clans return such as those in Hararghe - Bale

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

Mashallah these lost somalis are coming back. Inshallah other lost clans return such as those in Hararghe - Bale

Are they lost Somalis or a closely related Cushitic tribe ?

 

[Kamaaludeen Al Reewin]

No doubt they are Somalis, they speak a language which is 70% Somali, and they look very identical to Somalis. Apart from some recent mixture with bantus

 

[Khaemwaset]

Are they lost Somalis or a closely related Cushitic tribe ?

Rendille comes from "Reer Diinle"

They were Somali clans who remained pagan and got expelled for their refusal of islam. Southwards to Kenya. Their language could be classed as a dialect of Somali

 

[Bazed]

Mashallah.

 

[Internet Nomad]

They need to start giving dawah on the streets of somalia to try and mitigate khat and qabyaalad.

 

[The Oponian Guild]

Mashallah these lost somalis are coming back. Inshallah other lost clans return such as those in Hararghe - Bale

They’re not Somali, but they’re a earlier wave of lowland east cushites who entered that area long ago, their language has a lot of linguistic similarities with Somali therefore it’s more likely they branched off much more recently than say oromos.

 

[The Oponian Guild]

Rendille comes from "Reer Diinle"

They were Somali clans who remained pagan and got expelled for their refusal of islam. Southwards to Kenya. Their language could be classed as a dialect of Somali

These are just ad hoc explanations, the truth is, they adopted a lot of Somali phraseology and Somali words from when they came into contact with migrating Somali clans, people then mistakenly think these similarities are from them supposedly being descended from Somalis.

 

[Basra]

Mashalaaah now they wont be naked anymore

 

[johnsepei5]

Somali sheikhs in Kenya are helping to convert them the rendile language is very similar to Somali

Their women should be married off to Somalis
So they can regain their lost Somali genes

Intergrating all boranas/oromos and people in northern Kenya is a matter of importance Reer NFD need to see through

 

[Nilotic]

No doubt they are Somalis, they speak a language which is 70% Somali, and they look very identical to Somalis. Apart from some recent mixture with bantus

I think they mixed with Nilotes instead

 

[Rayaale]

Are they lost Somalis or a closely related Cushitic tribe ?

My Garre friend says he understands 80% of Rendille language but there’s no much evidence if they are Somalis or just another Cushitic tribe

 

[Rayaale]

No doubt they are Somalis, they speak a language which is 70% Somali, and they look very identical to Somalis. Apart from some recent mixture with bantus

They mixed with the samburus who are Nilotic and not Bantu

 

[Rayaale]

I think they mixed with Nilotes instead

They mixed with the samburus who are Nilotes

 

[Khaemwaset]