Why are Somalis so adamant on not being seen as Arabs?
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We are Somalis not Arabs, it disgusting to compare us to those lizard eating Arabs.
Apollo
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Lol, what a bunch of bullshit. This dumb myth is so widespread.
Levantines have very little European crusader ancestry. They have about as much blood from Niger, Chad, South Sudan as they do from European Crusaders.
The history of African gene flow into Southern Europeans, Levantines, and Jews - PubMed
Previous genetic studies have suggested a history of sub-Saharan African gene flow into some West Eurasian populations after the initial dispersal out of Africa that occurred at least 45,000 years ago. However, there has been no accurate characterization of the proportion of mixture, or of its...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
'' Levantine groups harbor 4%-15% African ancestry with an average mixture date of about 32 generations ago''
32 generations = about 800 years.
this is cap. Maybe their are more ppl in ethiopia who speak arabic than somalia due to population, but most eritreans do not speak arabic. its just an offical language there like it is in somalia
Actually a lot of Ethiopians claim to have Arab roots, and many Eritreans identify as Arab.
Nope they would be far more savage than those countries you listed. Yemen, Libya, and Syria all have richer history and are more civilized than GCC countries.
Thats cap. Ethiopians dont claim that maybe they claim to come from Sulieman/solomon. and no eritreans claim to be arab. except the rashaida peoeple
Lol they do, even the orthodox Amhara often claim Arab roots.
Plenty of Eritreans claim to be Arab... The Tigre, Bilen, Beja, and Nara too. Some of the Tigrinya claim it as well to feel closer to those tribes.
Regg
Stroking my Australinimo
Go and meet the Sahos, Jebertis, Bilen, Tigre and the Beni Amers. I can guarantee you they speak Arabic. All Eritrean Muslims do.
maybe the beja, but the rest dont at all.
and amhara wouldn't claim anything other than amhara or ethiopia, they are very tribalistic. wouldnt be surprised if they said arabs came from them
Bilen, Tigre, Nara, etc are very similar to the Beja. Tigrinya are also wannabe Beja, they are ashamed of their roots due to being subjugated by lowlander Muslims.
You're right the Amhara are very arrogant and prideful, but they still claim Arab roots to distance themselves from Africanness.
lmfao wlhi my mom is saho and doesn't speak arabic but she speaks tigrinya . where would they even learn arabic from?
Many of them were refugees in Sudan, or did business there so they learned Arabic. It's not hard to learn the language tbh, especially for religious reasons.
Languages of Eritrea - Wikipedia
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- Sudanese Arabic, also spoken by Sudanese Arabs. It has around 100,000 speakers.
- Hijazi Arabic, spoken by the Rashaida. As of 2006, there were around 24,000 speakers.
the only ones who learn it are minoirty tribes from sudan, and thats like 3% of the country
I don't think Eritrea took a proper census since the Italians left. Either way I know for a fact that plenty of Eritreans learn Arabic, whether it be for religious or business purposes."Languages of Eritrea - Wikipedia
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- Sudanese Arabic, also spoken by Sudanese Arabs. It has around 100,000 speakers.
- Hijazi Arabic, spoken by the Rashaida. As of 2006, there were around 24,000 speakers.
the only ones who learn it are minoirty tribes from sudan, and thats like 3% of the country
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Regg
Stroking my Australinimo
Wiki doesn’t mean much. Remember, lots of information from both countries are disorted for political reasons."Languages of Eritrea - Wikipedia
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- Sudanese Arabic, also spoken by Sudanese Arabs. It has around 100,000 speakers.
- Hijazi Arabic, spoken by the Rashaida. As of 2006, there were around 24,000 speakers.
the only ones who learn it are minoirty tribes from sudan, and thats
I’ve met and seen them speak Arabic as their main language when communicating with other Muslim ethnicities.
The Sahos mostly learned it from Sudan as refugees then it spread to the new generation who can only speak Arabic. Whereas, Arabic language has always been part of the Lowland ethnic groups because they were part of the Ottoman and Egypt control until the late 19th century.
The ones who doesn’t speak it are the Saho grandparents (who lived in their village all of their lives before their Arabized kids from the diaspora brought them out) and the Tigrinyas who live in segregated communities and don’t live with them for religious reasons.
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Yep, and it was a gradual process. First only the wealthy traders learned Arabic, then they'd only hire workers that also spoke Arabic which led to a linguistic shift.
What sahos are going to sudan for as refugees? they go to tigray most of them. and my entire family in eritrea the only ones who can speak arabic are the ones who went to saudi arabia to work there.
and the ottomons only had control of massawa which is in the north which the sahos arent there
