Apollo
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Ok but if you go back to BC times the people you find won't speak anything close to Somali. They won't even look Somali not to mention the different culture. Why even call them Somali?
Somalis as we know them today began at most 1600-2000 years ago
They are Somali. Somalis are the purest of the ethnic Lowland East Cushites. They have preserved their genetics since 5,000 BC.
In Ethiopia, the Cushites changed a lot from Omotic mixing and Semitic invasions. With Somalis nothing happened, except a new religion.