Should Somali be classed in a different group?

[adaharari]

Should the Somali language be classed in a different language group?
What is your opinion

 

[Mohamud]

aren't language groups based on lineage rather than overt similarities?

if languages branch off each other and we can trace that than no cushitic language families ought to be kept intact

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

what classification r u thinking.

 

[adaharari]

aren't language groups based on lineage rather than overt similarities?

if languages branch off each other and we can trace that than no cushitic language families ought to be kept intact

I think so
I just think somali is quite different to a lot of the others

 

[adaharari]

what classification r u thinking.

Its own branch under cushitic or im not sure, always sound different to me

 

[ethan bradberry]

Wot?

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

Its own branch under cushitic or im not sure, always sound different to me

yeah when i hear afar and oromo i am really disapointed because they sound like shit. somali to me sounds more bad ass. what is closest language to somali in yr opinion sound wise

 

[ሕጊ።።]

aren't language groups based on lineage rather than overt similarities?

if languages branch off each other and we can trace that than no cushitic language families ought to be kept intact

Yes, ancestral lineage. But languages in the same group have more similarities than ones outside, so it's the same thing really.

 

[adaharari]

yeah when i hear afar and oromo i am really disapointed because they sound like shit. somali to me sounds more bad ass. what is closest language to somali in yr opinion sound wise

I say rendille i think is closest sounding, then i would have said afar
Definetely not oromo at all

 

[DuctTape]

yeah when i hear afar and oromo i am really disapointed because they sound like shit. somali to me sounds more bad ass.

It's because the Afroasiatic family is the oldest recorded language family, and the cushitic branch is also likely much older than European ones, so they've had much more time to separate and develop into their own languages.

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

I say rendille i think is closest sounding, then i would have said afar
Definetely not oromo at all

 

[adaharari]

What?

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

What?

i was caught off guard by how many somali words they have. called god waaq and they use same numbering.

 

[adaharari]

i was caught off guard by how many somali words they have. called god waaq and they use same numbering.

I thought you were disagreeing lol
I have seen somalis on twitter say they understand some of it too

 

[Mohamud]

I say rendille i think is closest sounding, then i would have said afar
Definetely not oromo at all

yeah rendille sounds a lot like somali

i mean i can't understand it but i can feel it

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

I thought you were disagreeing lol
I have seen somalis on twitter say they understand some of it too

bro am not even joking, i understand it as much as maay maay. some of the words they either use same meaning words that are not often used in my region and sometimes they just flip around existing words. its quite weird to discover this now

 

[Mohamud]

>34.7K

unacceptable

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

>34.7K

unacceptable

their laangaabnimo?

 

[adaharari]

bro am not even joking, i understand it as much as maay maay. some of the words they either use same meaning words that are not often used in my region and sometimes they just flip around existing words. its quite weird to discover this now

Interesting!
The others seem different

 

[ሕጊ።።]

It's because the Afroasiatic family is the oldest recorded language family, and the cushitic branch is also likely much older than European ones, so they've had much more time to separate and develop into their own languages.

I don't think it's just that. It's just we can't tell similarities by just looking at things sometimes. Some words are linked in the weirdest ways that we wouldn't be able to tell just by listening or reading briefly.