Mogadishu Embraces Somali-African Language On Signs and Billboards #BlackTribesMatter

[Hubble]

My Aunts and Uncles speak Italian, they even taught their kids Italian before Somali. My Aabo is the only one who speaks Arabic and went to an Arabic school, and later learned English,

They're in a tiny tiny tiny minority.

 

[Gibiin-Udug]

They're in a tiny tiny tiny minority.

My family speaks Italian fluently. My mother, uncles, aunts and granny. I understand Italian but I can't have conversation with it.

 

[John Michael]

My Aunts and Uncles speak Italian, they even taught their kids Italian before Somali. My Aabo is the only one who speaks Arabic and went to an Arabic school, and later learned English,

Are you part talyani, or were your uncles and aunts raised in a convent? Those are the only people I know who speak Italian as a first language.

Do you speak Italian?

 

[Rooble]

LMFAO @ Nucleaus Avatar i can't breathe

 

[Hubble]

My family speaks Italian fluently. My mother, uncles, aunts and granny. I understand Italian but I can't have conversation with it.

Did they live in Italy?

 

[John Michael]

My family speaks Italian fluently. My mother, uncles, aunts and granny. I understand Italian but I can't have conversation with it.

My family only speak Italian because we live there and go there often, amongst somalis it's rare to see them speak at native level nowadays.

 

[Freebandz]

No they don't. I know people associate south somalia to Italy a lot, but most people my parents age and older were educated in English/arabic only a some were educated in italian as well as university was in italian. No one cares about Italian, only those who have a connection to Italy itself still speak Italian.

Speak for yourself

 

[Baraf]

Nope. One of my cousin's in one-eighth Italian though. One of my relatives was raised in a convent; I don't know about the rest quite honestly. I recall one of them saying they went to a Catholic Missionary school.

 

[Baraf]

Yeah, they do go there quite often. I think some of my cousins were born there.

 

[Gibiin-Udug]

Did they live in Italy?

Yeah couple of my family members on my mother's side lived there. My granny actually lived there for 13 years. And so did my father.

My family only speak Italian because we live there and go there often, amongst somalis it's rare to see them speak at native level nowadays.

My mother's side of the family lived in Italy before the civil war. My dad also lived in Italy for couple of years back in the 1970s. They speak natively and even my siblings and I picked up on it, I understand most of the things they say but I can't hold a conversation.

 

[Rooble]

Ok Suki we get it lmfao yaab

 

[Gibiin-Udug]

Ok Suki we get it lmfao yaab

I was answering to 2 different people.

 

[John Michael]

Speak for yourself

i stand corrected scusa paisano i guess Italian IS routinely spoken in south somalia.

 

[waraabe]

Good move

 

[Freebandz]

i stand corrected scusa paysani. Italian IS routinely spoken in south somalia.

My father speaks 3 different languages 4 if you count somali

 

[Tramo]

i hate it when random arabs speak to me in arabic expecting me to understand it. when i tell em i dont speak it they act shocked like "b-but ur suumaaal, how comes?". since when do somalis speak arabic, or have i just been dodging the millions of fluent arabic speakers? yaab

 

[TheSayid]

i had to convince this yemeni guy somali wasn't a arabic dialect, man said i don't understand the dialect of arabic they speak in somalia, dialect kulaha

 

[Gibiin-Udug]

i hate it when random arabs speak to me in arabic expecting me to understand it. when i tell em i dont speak it they act shocked like "b-but ur suumaaal, how comes?". since when do somalis speak arabic, or have i just been dodging the millions of fluent arabic speakers? yaab

Looooooooooool


Most Arab loving Somalis would have kissed his hand and thanked him.

 

[Tramo]

it's like they can sense my banu hashim nasab-ness without me even saying anything

 

[Gibiin-Udug]

it's like they can sense my banu hashim nasab-ness without me even saying anything

You're on a roll lately haaaaaaaaaaaa!