The word "Somalian"

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There are two possibilities here.
1) He thought of a cool rhyme for "some molly" and wanted to use it, failing to realise the implications of his statement
2) He was 'sneak' (although it's not exactly implicit) dissing somali girls
What bothers me most about this tweet is the use of "Somalian". I fucking hate that. How difficult is it for people to understand that it's "Somali", and not "Somalian"? It just sounds worse, almost like an insult.
Make this illegal

who the hell cares if it's somali or somalian wtf, i used to call myself somalian occasionally until some braindead xalimo went ballistic on me ,i fail to understand why all these somalians(idgaf) get pissed off about that shit.And it's usually the females ,wallahi you guys are some petty fucks.

 

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who the hell cares if it's somali or somalian wtf, i used to call myself somalian occasionally until some braindead xalimo went ballistic on me ,i fail to understand why all these somalians(idgaf) get pissed off about that shit.And it's usually the females ,wallahi you guys are some petty fucks.

I just hate the way it sounds
Everyone has their pet peeves bradar don't hate

 

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It's correct to say Somalian according to Collin's dictionary, Webster's dictionary, and Oxford dictionary and many other dictionaries.

 

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It's correct to say Somalian according to Collin's dictionary, Webster's dictionary, and Oxford dictionary and many other dictionaries.

Doesn't "Somalian" refer to nationality and "Somali" refer to the ethnic group? I'm not denying that it's a word, it's the fact that it's incorrect

 

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Doesn't "Somalian" refer to nationality and "Somali" refer to the ethnic group? I'm not denying that it's a word, it's the fact that it's incorrect

A native or inhabitant of Somalia.

So all Somalis outside of Djibouti, K5 and NFD.

 

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A native or inhabitant of Somalia.

So all Somalis outside of Djibouti, K5 and NFD.

So it isn't strictly defined to mean the ethnic group.
That makes it less accurate as a label, as you can have Indian Somalians and Chinese Somalians for that matter
"Somali" is the term for the people

 

[Bahal]

Somali is an ethnonym people, it predates any modern state(lets).

 

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So it isn't strictly defined to mean the ethnic group.
That makes it less accurate as a label, as you can have Indian Somalians and Chinese Somalians for that matter
"Somali" is the term for the people

Other than a few thousand cadcads and a dozen European/African permanetly settled NGO workers, who else lives in Somalia? Only Somalis do.

 

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Other than a few thousand cadcads and a dozen European/African permanetly settled NGO workers, who else lives in Somalia?

bantuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus

 

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Other than a few thousand cadcads and a dozen European/African permanetly settled NGO workers, who else lives in Somalia? Only Somalis do.

1,000,000 Bantus my friend

 

[Mohamud]

1,000,000 Bantus my friend

For now

@Amun @Bahal

 

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Somali Bantus are ethnic Somalis.

 

[Mohamud]

Horta did you make a new thread for this?

 

[Admin]

Somalian is correct. Somali sounds cooler.

 

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Somali Bantus are ethnic Somalis.

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Definition of ethnicity:

the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

 

[Inactive]

Horta did you make a new thread for this?

Yes because it turned into another discussion about the word "Somalian"

 

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Definition of ethnicity:

the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

Is it correct to say they "Belong" to a social group when they are discriminated against and treated as ethnically distinct from actual ethnic Somalis. Is it right to say they have a common national or cultural tradition with Somalis when they speak a different language to Somalis as their mother tongue, and even when they do speak Somali, it is a unique dialect? This is totally subjective but I don't think that they are a part of the ethnic group if they are not seen by a part of said ethnic group as "one of them". Besides, you know what I mean when I say "ethnically distinct", and the Bantus are ethnically distinct from us. They have maintained their own culture/traditions (i.e animism and a more sedentary lifestyle) from Somalis.

 

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Somali Bantus are ethnic Somalis.

 

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Is it correct to say they "Belong" to a social group when they are discriminated against and treated as ethnically distinct from actual ethnic Somalis.

Madhibaan and Tumaal and Yibir are also discriminated against and treated ethnically distinct from "actual Somalis". They call them indigenous or Jews.

Is it right to say they have a common national or cultural tradition with Somalis when they speak a different language to Somalis as their mother tongue, and even when they do speak Somali, it is a unique dialect?

The majority of Somali Bantus speak only Somali.

Rahanwein and reer Xamar and reer Waqooyi and reer Djibouti speak very different from the standard Somali accent from Mudug.