The Afar People

[Abba Sadacha]

Really? I thought jimma was one of the omotic hotspots since a lot of kaffa people were assimilated there. Do kaffa look cushitic

yes, it is, but
check out shaykh ali jimma. very cushtic in his features. a lot of us look like this there, in jimma.
My mother's last name is siad/ziad, and I often wonder if she has somali kin somewhere down the line? I feel like siad/ziad is more common among somalis? i could be wrong.
i did find out my great grandmother on my mom's side, was fully silte. a muslim ethnic group once considered to be gurage, that is close to the hararis.

 

[Abba Sadacha]

Naah saho and afar are different.

I brought proof, you brought nothing but ''nah they different, trust me,'' Lol nah bruh, that's not how this works. Bring a book, bring a historical source, something besides just your ''word.''

 

[yeeena1909]

Naah saho and afar are different.

the languages are pretty much hthe same so there probably some close relation

 

[HiraanBorn]

They are clearly savages of the most ferocious type! Just observe the intense stare of this barbarous Afar female specimen:

 

[Som]

Seeing a somali with big noses/lips is rare and very uncommon wheras with Oromos it’s pretty much typical and not questioned. Oromos are a very diverse group, I’ve seen many that look straight up Middle Eastern and some that look straight from nigeria. View attachment 186742A Middle Eastern/ habesha looking oromo women
View attachment 186743A Bantu/niger-Congo looking oromo man.
View attachment 186744Even within this one picture the girl on the left looks kenyan, the middles look Ethiopian, the little girl looks somali and the one of the right looks rwandan and all of them are oromo.


Oromos are way to diverse to be a singleethnic group, that’s why most Somalis only marry from certain oromo groups that are considered more “pure” like hararghe and arsi oromos

First girl looks average horner.
The second guy has stuff in his nose probably to protect him from breathing some bad air, you can't really say he looks bantu
Third pic : being dark skinned doesn't mean looking kenyan otherwise most Somalis would look kenyan. The girl on the left falls on the darker side of the Horn african phenotype spectrum.

 

[Som]

Seeing a somali with big noses/lips is rare and very uncommon wheras with Oromos it’s pretty much typical and not questioned. Oromos are a very diverse group, I’ve seen many that look straight up Middle Eastern and some that look straight from nigeria. View attachment 186742A Middle Eastern/ habesha looking oromo women
View attachment 186743A Bantu/niger-Congo looking oromo man.
View attachment 186744Even within this one picture the girl on the left looks kenyan, the middles look Ethiopian, the little girl looks somali and the one of the right looks rwandan and all of them are oromo.


Oromos are way to diverse to be a singleethnic group, that’s why most Somalis only marry from certain oromo groups that are considered more “pure” like hararghe and arsi oromos

Also. Let's keep it real, many somalis have big noses and many have full lips. We look more african than habesha and oromos who live in central/north ethiopia

 

[convincation]

First girl looks average horner.
The second guy has stuff in his nose probably to protect him from breathing some bad air, you can't really say he looks bantu
Third pic : being dark skinned doesn't mean looking kenyan otherwise most Somalis would look kenyan. The girl on the left falls on the darker side of the Horn african phenotype spectrum.

First girl looks habesha/yemeni, no pure/non admixed somali has her skin tone and features
Second guy looks straight Congolese...everything from features to her type
The girl I said looked kenyan I didn’t say because of her skin tone but because of her hair type and features. Plenty of somalis are darker than her ofcourse but they still loook “Cushitic”

 

[angelplan]

 

[Based]

Also. Let's keep it real, many somalis have big noses and many have full lips. We look more african than habesha and oromos who live in central/north ethiopia

have you ever seen a habesha or oromo other than those lightskin models? On average they both look identical to Somalis feature wise.

 

[Macalin dheerow]

Afar people have the best hairstyles, they did not lose their tradition

They have their traditional hairstyles, while us have abandoned them so bad, some say its not ” somali” to have a lot of hair

 

[Cerberus]

There are only 600,000 of them on this planet I belive. We got to ask for their abtiris to find out how somalis are related to them . This is the average afar girl,sharp teeth and wits

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Our beautiful somali women have sharp wits and beautifull xasuul baruur. Any correlation

Sharp teeth? Man if I was her hubby I better not get on her bad side

 

[Som]

have you ever seen a habesha or oromo other than those lightskin models? On average they both look identical to Somalis feature wise.

They also have dark skinned people but on average they are lighter and have less African features. Oromos are another topic though, those who live next to somalis look like us while those who mixed with amhara look more habesha.
Habeshas are about 10% more west eurasian than us and that partially reflects on looks

 

[Gantaal97]

Who are they? How do they play a role in the cushitic family group? What is their history? What is their relation to Somalis and what's their religion?

An ethnic group that mostly inhabitants with Cisse in djboouti and Ethiopia

 

[Gantaal97]

They're Muslim and I heard they don't like Somalis

They don't like Cisse who are their historical rivals in the horn

 

[Apollo]

Also. Let's keep it real, many somalis have big noses and many have full lips. We look more african than habesha and oromos who live in central/north ethiopia

Ethnic Somalis don't have more ''Negroid'' skulls, facial traits, nor hair than Habesha Ethiopians with higher Eurasian admixture. The only difference really is the darker skin (Somalis have darker skin). Moreover, Somalis have adapted to the desert climate of the Eastern Horn which results in more ''Caucasoid'' bone structure.

The Ethiopian hunter-gatherers probably looked more Negroid (wetter climate conditions) than the hunter-gatherers who lived in Somalia (environmental adaptation to arid conditions), which can also explain why many Oromos look more ''Negroid'' than Somalis despite often having slightly higher Eurasian %.

The reason why Afars and Somalis look similar is environmental adaptation, meanwhile Amharas who are somewhat close to Afars don't look that much like Somalis (less environmental adaption to arid lowland climate).

 

[Som]

Ethnic Somalis don't have more ''Negroid'' skulls, facial traits, nor hair than Habesha Ethiopians with higher Eurasian admixture. The only difference really is the darker skin (Somalis have darker skin). Moreover, Somalis have adapted to the desert climate of the Eastern Horn which results in more ''Caucasoid'' bone structure.

The Ethiopian hunter-gatherers probably looked more Negroid (wetter climate conditions) than the hunter-gatherers who lived in Somalia (environmental adaptation to arid conditions), which can also explain why many Oromos look more ''Negroid'' than Somalis despite often having slightly higher Eurasian %.

The reason why Afars and Somalis look similar is environmental adaptation, meanwhile Amharas who are somewhat close to Afars don't look that much like Somalis (less environmental adaption to arid lowland climate).

First of all i think the afars in most dna tests are actually Agaws who are habesha admixed. Real afars have not been tested much, I guess they have a more somali like DNA.
Secondly I'm not entirely sure about the whole environment thing, if somalis and habeshas separated 4-5 thousands years ago I don't think it's enough to produce a different phenotype.
Third , look at this issa somali man from Djibouti. You may find this phenotype among afars or oromos but im sure it's going to be very rare among pure habeshas especially tigrays

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[Som]

Ethnic Somalis don't have more ''Negroid'' skulls, facial traits, nor hair than Habesha Ethiopians with higher Eurasian admixture. The only difference really is the darker skin (Somalis have darker skin). Moreover, Somalis have adapted to the desert climate of the Eastern Horn which results in more ''Caucasoid'' bone structure.

The Ethiopian hunter-gatherers probably looked more Negroid (wetter climate conditions) than the hunter-gatherers who lived in Somalia (environmental adaptation to arid conditions), which can also explain why many Oromos look more ''Negroid'' than Somalis despite often having slightly higher Eurasian %.

The reason why Afars and Somalis look similar is environmental adaptation, meanwhile Amharas who are somewhat close to Afars don't look that much like Somalis (less environmental adaption to arid lowland climate).

And actually it makes more sense that somalis have slightly more african phenotypeI It's not much but it's noticable sometimes.
Look at Egyptians for example, they are on a bit more subsaharan African than levantine arabs and you can see it in some people's phenotype.

 

[Apollo]

First of all i think the afars in most dna tests are actually Agaws who are habesha admixed. Real afars have not been tested much, I guess they have a more somali like DNA.
Secondly I'm not entirely sure about the whole environment thing, if somalis and habeshas separated 4-5 thousands years ago I don't think it's enough to produce a different phenotype.
Third , look at this issa somali man from Djibouti. You may find this phenotype among afars or oromos but im sure it's going to be very rare among pure habeshas especially tigrays

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You are wrong on the various Afars samples in genetic studies not being Afar. They actually all are Afar and many newer studies confirmed that genetic pattern of Afars being similar to Amharas with simply less Omotic.

Secondly, that phenotype is not common at all in Somalis. Silly cherry picking. You can find that look in Afars and Oromos as well, but it is not common in either. Example here:

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None of those looks are the standard for Afars either.

There is no evidence that ethnic Somalis are craniometrically more ''Negroid'' than other Horners. In fact, it is the opposite. In most of those craniometric studies I see Northern Somalis plot on the gracile end.

Nubians and Sudanese Arabs are also more ''Eurasian'' than Somalis, yet on all craniometric studies I have come across they are more Negroid than Somalis.

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

First of all i think the afars in most dna tests are actually Agaws who are habesha admixed. Real afars have not been tested much, I guess they have a more somali like DNA.
Secondly I'm not entirely sure about the whole environment thing, if somalis and habeshas separated 4-5 thousands years ago I don't think it's enough to produce a different phenotype.
Third , look at this issa somali man from Djibouti. You may find this phenotype among afars or oromos but im sure it's going to be very rare among pure habeshas especially tigrays

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I've seen videos from Tigray/Northern Provinces and Eritrea and the average person looks like the Somali individual you posted irrespective of their skin tone[some were lighter but had the same features as the individual you posted].

The overwhelming majority of Horners look Black/Bi-racial. It's extremely rare to find people who look like the guy below in the Horn of Africa who are completely Caucasoid regardless of ethnic background:

 

[Apollo]

Somali skulls literally plot next to Ancient Egyptian skulls, yet Ancient and Modern Nubians don't lol.