The alchemist
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That's true. I just wanted to emphasize aspects of it. The majority of Tunni, after all, lived outside the city, 2k and 13k respectively (early 20th century estimates), the Tunni Torre might have been 1/4 in addition to that. The Sab have a bit of a different tribal system as it does not correlate with geographic distribution. It likely has something to do with their higher-than-normal sedentary lifestyles, to emphasize again, it is a confederacy.Most tunni outside baraawe are not tunni torre and they can be found everywhere from the jubba river in gobweyn to merca. Tunni torre are the freedman of the tunni and they have theri own clans system with subclans known as Gameele, Kumma, Gacandheer, Miyir, Magentoola.
Also the tunni took in many shegats like the elay who are now part of the clan but they were once one related tribe who speak their own language, af tunni.
Even noble clans break down after a while so what we have today is consistent, or semi-consistent as you come close to the current time, with the earliest periods being perhaps a long-gone clan tradition that we don't practice anymore or times of re-alignment of ties that broke those earlier structures. A mix of several things I think. That's why applying modern assumptions to why it lacks consistency with the reality of Y-DNA is somewhat foolish. Assuming one mutation based on frequency alone is an assumption in itself. It's not very scientific if I'm going to be real. It's just people thinking on a probabilistic scale which carries an intrinsic error, not even knowing the statistical landscape to measure that. All we do is go off from assumptions, and some seem stronger than others the closer in time we get.
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