please help!! Any one Know whats the Somali words for NEPHEW and NIECE?

CanoGeel

"Show respect to all people, but grovel to none"
so been texting my niece back n forth and outta respect all her replies end with "Adheer." but i couldnt come up with the somali word for a niece, neither do i know a word for a nephew so i just keep replying her "ok Adheer, ill do that" . like why am i calling her Adheer ;cus i couldnt come up with niece. i felt embarrassed later

does anybody know nephew or niece in Af somali? much appreciated.
or we gonna have to invent one
 
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CanoGeel

"Show respect to all people, but grovel to none"
If she’s your sisters daughter - abti
If she’s your brothers daughter - adeer
she is not My adheer, I am her Adheer, she's my niece and i can t address her as Adheer:ayaanswag:may be the word dont exist

@Apollo pull out one of them medieval scrolls buried in ur basement and help a brotha out
 

QueenofKings

Kick in the door wavin the .44
she is not My adheer, I am her Adheer, she's my niece and i can t address her as Adheer:ayaanswag:may be the word dont exist

@Apollo pull out one of them medieval scrolls buried in ur basement and help a brotha out

Do your parents not also call you hooyo and aabo. Do your aunties not call you eedo and habaryar.

That’s just the quirk of our language. Why is it a problem.
:mjdontkno:
 

Caaro

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you call them “adeer” and “abti”. They’re not your abti or adeer but you end the sentence with it.
 
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