Yh we're in a significantly better position language wise then majority of african countries my most recent thread did a deep dive on thatIf we compare ourselves to other African nations we're doing well. It's better to look at through that lens. We don't have many italian or English loan words when you consider that. I hear Djiboutian Somali has a lot more French and Arabic in it but that's a small region of Somali speakers so it shouldn't threaten us too much. I think it is still fairly mutually intelligible with standard Somali.