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Saho language sounds familiar to us Oromos- I am sure Somali's agree too!
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Wow, sounds more Somali-like than Afar does, honestly. Bejas, Ethiosemitized Beja, Sahos, Afars and Somalis are basically one large cultural continuum. Coastal Cushites. Extremely similar historical material culture, near identical in the case of the latter three, many shared customs and of course anciently related languages and lots of shared ancient ancestry.
I think it's just me and the fact that I understand Af-Maxaa so it's the only one that doesn't sound like gibberish to me but I feel like Af-Maxaa is the most distinct sounding Cushitic language. Other Cushitic languages sound weirdly very alike, even Ethiosemitic languages somewhat fall under this umbrella:
Even when certain consonants are missing like ca, xa and kha in Sidamo they somehow still sound alike to me.
Al Muslim
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There seem to be quite a few similarities between Saho and Somali aside from the Arabic words we share. I looked up some words in Saho and here are some of the similarities:
cokka means ear, and cokka waye means deaf, inti means eye and inti waye means blind. The waye here meaning without, is similar to the Somali waaye.
The word badti which means ocean is similar to bad.
abaare/abaaro which is to curse sounds like habaar.
Cadaa which means Caday as in the tree whose branches are used as toothbrushes.
The word for well is the same, ceel.
xutukta = star, like xidig
dherh = tall, like dheer
casa = red, like cas.
cado = white, like cad.
darur = clouds, like daruur
Right = mizga similar to midig
left = gure similar to gurey
In the video I heard them say maxaa though I'm not sure if it has the same meaning.
There is a lot of common words between cushitic languages, here's a part of a table comparing the numerals of a few.
Full table is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushitic_languages#Numerals
cokka means ear, and cokka waye means deaf, inti means eye and inti waye means blind. The waye here meaning without, is similar to the Somali waaye.
The word badti which means ocean is similar to bad.
abaare/abaaro which is to curse sounds like habaar.
Cadaa which means Caday as in the tree whose branches are used as toothbrushes.
The word for well is the same, ceel.
xutukta = star, like xidig
dherh = tall, like dheer
casa = red, like cas.
cado = white, like cad.
darur = clouds, like daruur
Right = mizga similar to midig
left = gure similar to gurey
In the video I heard them say maxaa though I'm not sure if it has the same meaning.
There is a lot of common words between cushitic languages, here's a part of a table comparing the numerals of a few.
Full table is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushitic_languages#Numerals
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Go to about 9:40 in the video above. I feel like they're saying "Haye" (okay) the same way we do.
Al Muslim
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I heard that too, and I agree. He uses is at 7:05 as well. I heard them say maxaa at 5:10 and 11:00 though I'm not sure if it has the same meaning.
AdoonkaAlle
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The way they say haye is similar to us & also some few words here & there. Like at 5:14 the guy in the macawis says “ maxay iska rabay ?”
Definitely points to a distant shared origin like all other cushites. Laakin it’s definitely not mutually comprehensible with af somali, maybe there’s a chance they can understand us.
The alchemist
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Sounds like a bunch of Somali clowns trying to deliberately speak something unintelligible.
Lol even the hand gestures are the same. At 1:02 he says "Haye" 
It sounds Oromo, Somali, and Eritrean! I’m dead
. It’s definitely messing with my head.We are one big family and I hope we can find more ways to unite and strengthen our regions like these cadaans seem to be doing for Europe and the West.
CanoGeel
"Show respect to all people, but grovel to none"
I really don't care about what Cushitic language it is close but am glad that all the Langab and Subjugated Cushites are coming home.
Thank you Al Samale -al Cushititiya for holding the Throne and preserving our Afro-Asiatic Sub-lineage
Thank you Al Samale -al Cushititiya for holding the Throne and preserving our Afro-Asiatic Sub-lineage
Agree. To me even Oromo has some kind of " Ethiopian" sound that i find also in Amharic. It's not about the words or the grammar, i don't speak those languages but as a somali they sound like they have the same "musicality" . If it wasn't for words like magaala or numbers i would honestly have a hard time distinguishing Oromo from Amharic. Tigrinya is much more distinct because it has Xa , CA and KH sounds that are absent in Amharic.
On the other hand I feel afar-saho is closed to maxaa when it comes to how it sounds but obviously I don't understand anything.
I don't know. It's kinda like Greek and Spanish, two different Indo-European languages but they have the same sound to the point Spaniards and Greeks have a similar accent when the speak English.
Still for some reason we somalis don't have any foreign language that is mutually intelligible with ours except Maay and somalids languages , but in That case their speakers are considered part of the somali nation. The closest language to Somali is rendille and even in that case there's very little intelligibility besides a few words. In Europe swedish, Danish and Norwegians understand each other. Italians and Spaniards can have a basic conversation in their respective languages even though they don't share a border, Germans and dutch can understand a bit of each other etc. We somalis don't have anything like that
Besides a few words as a somali speaker it's easier for me to understand Arabic ( i never studied spoken Arabic) than Oromo.
Off topic. These Christians missionaries are translating the bible into every single language of the world. WTF , it's crazy how you can find most horner languages samples in these bible videos
This is because we are one big language family
