The republic of Muqadawishukugu

[Riftvalley]

Around 27 minutes he says Muqdisho is a Swahili word. He goes onto say coastal cities were developed by the “civilised” and “free” not “desert people”. Claims Batuta did not encounter any Somalis in muqdishu and Somali arrived on the coast and Somalis arrived after the Italian came.

Barawa guy nervously laughing along even though his community have lived with Somalis in Barawa for a long time and their language is also heavily infused with Somali, as are all other dialects spoken along the coast in Marka and Muqdisho, etc.

Doesn’t challenge the Hindi guy nor does he ask him to explain why Swahili has left no traces in Muqdisho dialects?

 

[New World]

Send them back.

 

[Aurelian]

Around 27 minutes he says Muqdisho is a Swahili word. He goes onto say coastal cities were developed by the “civilised” and “free” not “desert people”. Claims Batuta did not encounter any Somalis in muqdishu and Somali arrived on the coast and Somalis arrived after the Italian came.

Barawa guy nervously laughing along even though his community have lived with Somalis in Barawa for a long time and their language is also heavily infused with Somali, as are all other dialects spoken along the coast in Marka and Muqdisho, etc.

Doesn’t challenge the Hindi guy nor does he ask him to explain why Swahili has left no traces in Muqdisho dialects?

This indians or arabs establishing Muqdisho is stupid and overused. He explained it to be the Somali way of pronouncing the swahili "the city in the eye" while in Somali, Muqdishu can be pronounced as Muuq-disho, which means "blinding beauty". Which makes more sense than a city in the eye. His batuta not meeting any Somali made his nose grow meters.

Furthermore he just claimed that Hawiyes use Ogaden name to refer to their homeland.

 

[Midas]

This indians or arabs establishing Muqdisho is stupid and overused. He explained it to be the Somali way of pronouncing the swahili "the city in the eye" while in Somali, Muqdishu can be pronounced as Muuq-disho, which means "blinding beauty". Which makes more sense than a city in the eye. His batuta not meeting any Somali made his nose grow meters.

Furthermore he just claimed that Hawiyes use Ogaden name to refer to their homeland.

I honestly find how they pedal this pseudohistory so funny. Consider that we have arabic insciriptons in mogadihsu from the 700s . And swahili is said to formed over a period from 800-1100. Yet somehow mogadishu is named after a swahili word? They also for some reason never acknowledge the fact that you have 1000 km of coast from zeila to mogadihsu with a bunch of coastal settlements


But what's funnier than all of this is that we have an entire scholarly tradition of somali ulema that we can date back to the 1200s. And we have the hagiography and biographical info of these guys from the 1300s onward and were even aware of medieval seminaries in somalia. For the swahili coast were not aware of any ulema before the 19th century.