Northern Somali (Somali: Af Waqooyi)[1] is a dialect of the Somali language and forms the basis for Standard Somali.[2][3] It is spoken by more than 60% of the entire Somali population, with its speech area stretching from Djibouti, Somaliland and the Somali Region of Ethiopia[4] This widespread modern distribution is a result of a long series of southward population movements over the past ten centuries from the Gulf of Aden littoral.[5]
^Lamberti, Marcello (1986). Map of Somali dialects in the Somalia Democratic Republic(PDF). H. Buske. ISBN 9783871186905.
^Dalby, Andrew (1998). Dictionary of languages: the definitive reference to more than 400 languages. Columbia University Press. p. 571.
NorthernSomali (Somali: Af Waqooyi) is a dialect of the Somali language and forms the basis for Standard Somali. It is spoken by more than 60% of the...
spoken as a mother tongue by Somalis in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora. Somali is an official language in Somalia and Ethiopia, and a national...
in Somali Bantus of the Juba region. Politically, the Somali Bantu of different tribes form ethnic alliances in the parliament of Somalia. The Somali Bantu...
Aweer–Garre Somali languages Somali linguistic varieties are broadly divided into three main groups: Northern, Benadir and Maay. NorthernSomali (or Nsom)...
of Somalia has always been Somali, although throughout Somalia's history various exoglossic languages have also been used at a national level. Somali is...
among the NorthernSomali of the Horn of Africa, (LIT Verlag Münster: 1999), p. 157. "Taariikhda Beerta Suldaan Cabdilaahi ee Hargeysa". Somali Diaspora...
The Somali Civil War (Somali: Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Soomaaliya; Arabic: الحرب الأهلية الصومالية al-ḥarb al-’ahliyya aṣ-ṣūmāliyya) is an ongoing civil war...
The Somali Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliyeed; Italian: Repubblica Somala; Arabic: الجمهورية الصومالية, romanized: Al-Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmālīyyah)...
Islam has been a part of Somali society since the 7th century. Practicing Islam reinforces distinctions that further set Somalis apart from their immediate...
Somali communities. Somali society is traditionally ethnically endogamous. So to extend ties of alliance, marriage is often to another ethnic Somali from...
The Somali National Movement (Somali: Dhaqdhaqaaqa Wadaniga Soomaaliyeed, Arabic: الحركة الوطنية الصومالية) was one of the first and most important organized...
Somali nationalism (Somali: Soomaalinimo) is a nationalist ideology advocating for the unification of all Somali people who share a common ethnicity, language...
culture of Somalia is an amalgamation of traditions in that were developed independently since the Proto-Somali era. The hypernym of the term Somali from a...
dei Giovani Somali or Lega Somala della Gioventù), initially known as the Somali Youth Club (SYC), was the first political party in Somalia. It played...
This is a list of Somali aristocratic and court titles that were historically used by the Somali people's various sultanates, kingdoms and empires. Also...
The Somali diaspora or Qurbajoogta refers to Somalis who were born in Greater Somalia and reside in areas of the world that they were not born in. The...
buy back the Somali lands that it had turned over. Britain also granted administration of the almost exclusively Somali-inhabited Northern Frontier District...
transcribe the Somali language. Of these, the Somali Latin alphabet is the most widely used. It has been the official writing script in Somalia since the Supreme...
deposits. Somalia is separated from Seychelles by the Somali Sea and is separated from Socotra by the Guardafui Channel. Non speaker of Somali language...
Somaliland was one of six governorates of the new colony, the Somalia Governorate, and incorporated Somali-inhabited parts of the former Abyssinia. The governorate...
Italian Somalis (Italian: Italo-somali) are Somali-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated...
Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places...
Yemenite-Somali Jews served as prominent leaders in successive Somali governments of the 1960s and 1970s. However, in the 1970s when Somalia joined the...
al Barbar ("Land of the Berbers"). It is also known as the Somali peninsula or, in the Somali language, Geeska Afrika, Jasiiradda Soomaali or Gacandhulka...
from the Somali Plate forming the eastern Indian Ocean. The Somali-Indian boundary spreading ridge is known as the Carlsberg Ridge. The Somali-Australian...
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