Somali culture is one of the strongest in africa. The case of Benadiri assimilation

[Som]

Arabs started to settle in somalia in the early middle ages, Mogadishu had sizeable arab presence. By 12-13th century Mogadishu developed a mixed arab-somali culture, the turning point though was in the 17th century when Hawiye tribes defeated the ajuraan-arab alliance and conquered Mogadishu. From that moment arab tribes in Mogadishu changed their names to somali names and adopted somali language and culture. Nowadays benadiris are a mixture of somali,arabs,bantus and pakistanis but they are completely somalized. Non Arab minorities in subsaharan africa rarely assimilate, on the contrary they arabize africans. The opposite happened in Somalia. Even recent arab migrants from yemen who came in the 20th century quickly adopted somali as their first language. Today no benadiris speak arabic as a native toungue which shows how strong somali culture really is. Benadiris are also very wadani, they were represented in the somali youth League independence movement and they are strong supporters of our country.

 

[pirater]

yea its pretty cool how strong somali influence is

 

[Dima&Damo]

Only mjs Knows How Assimilate Y'all Other Niggas Are Lacking On That Department You Don't See Exampel Arab Salax Say We Should Go Back To Our Roots Lol Reer Xamar

 

[Gadhwayne]

Yes indeedy but the Yemeni/Omani settlers usually dont get assimilated into clans except for the so called Carab Saalax and a few Indians here and there in nomadic Wuqooyi. The foreigners who visited north usually stayed temporarily. Nomads in general also switch languages less quickly

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Having said that I support the right of Barwaani, Gosha, and other indigenous/nativized tribes of Koonfur to maintain their separate identities/culture/language

 

[Macalin dheerow]

Arabs started to settle in somalia in the early middle ages, Mogadishu had sizeable arab presence. By 12-13th century Mogadishu developed a mixed arab-somali culture, the turning point though was in the 17th century when Hawiye tribes defeated the ajuraan-arab alliance and conquered Mogadishu. From that moment arab tribes in Mogadishu changed their names to somali names and adopted somali language and culture. Nowadays benadiris are a mixture of somali,arabs,bantus and pakistanis but they are completely somalized. Non Arab minorities in subsaharan africa rarely assimilate, on the contrary they arabize africans. The opposite happened in Somalia. Even recent arab migrants from yemen who came in the 20th century quickly adopted somali as their first language. Today no benadiris speak arabic as a native toungue which shows how strong somali culture really is. Benadiris are also very wadani, they were represented in the somali youth League independence movement and they are strong supporters of our country.

Benadiris are the result of local somalis assimilating people they traded with. There dialect is also not heavily arab influenced. Everything about them is somali except how they ”look”. Great people.


There are parts wrong in your statements. Somali has always been spoken in Xamar and Merka. Only Baraawe language shifted and even then the city was bilingual.