Dude really looks and sounds like a Somali uncle.
I need to test my maternal haplogroup, this is the highest concetration of J1B I've come across on the internet.
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Dude really looks and sounds like a Somali uncle.
I need to test my maternal haplogroup, this is the highest concetration of J1B I've come across on the internet.
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She's just saying socotra is somali
Saudis beef Yemenis like crazy. Not surprisingI forgot I could do thatanyways og poster is saudi
Oh I know I’ve seen it with my own eyes unfortunately
Soqotra is haunted.
Somalis don't seem to have bothered settling it much despite being avid sailors who frequently went up to Yemen, Oman and the Khaleej. Same actually goes for Yemenis. The native Soqotri seem to have come there a long time ago, arguably well over 1-2,000 years ago and are not even natively Arabic speakers but MSA speakers. Other than them it seems the inhabitants were largely just a few runaway slaves from places like the Swahili coast, Somalia and Arabia.
Take a good look at the place and you'll realize why fairly quickly if you have an eye for geography. Before the modern era where it now has potential as a strategic point along shipping lanes and as a tourist spot for its lovely beaches and unique fauna, it largely only had two things to offer in the past:
- Poor pasture land
- Somewhat decent fishing waters
Why would anyone leave Somalia or Arabia to live on a poorer Somalia or Arabia and top that off by further being isolated at sea? So yeah, no one really bothered with it until the modern era.
