For the sisters and brothers who speak soomaali

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wow this is cool. i don't know how to write somali but if i read enough of what you all are writing pretty soon i might know how.
 
:w: Hageed joogta? Sanaad kee tahay?

Somali is not a hard language, once you get the hang of what letters represent what sounds you'll be good in no time. I learned how to read and write in Somali on the internet in less than 6 months and you can too.
 
wacalaykumsalaam,
I hope you don't mind that i'm replying in english. i don't know how to write in somali yet. anyway i live in Ohio and i am 18 years old.

reading in somali is one thing but writing is just too hard for me. Inshallah i will learn it one day.
 
Amina2 said:
wacalaykumsalaam,
I hope you don't mind that i'm replying in english. i don't know how to write in somali yet. anyway i live in Ohio and i am 18 years old.

reading in somali is one thing but writing is just too hard for me. Inshallah i will learn it one day.
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:sl: It's really basic. The hard haa, or 7 in Arabic, is the letter ''x'' and the caa, or 3 in Arabic, is the letter ''c''. Those are the ones that people are mostly confused with, the rest are the same in English.
 
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actually thats the easy part for me. i understand it very well. its the double a's that confuse me. plus i speak a diff dialect of somali. Like af xamar(did i spell that right?)
 
Yeah, sis Amina 2 you spelled right, see you know how to write :smile:. Practise a lot and off course we will help you, Insha Allah. By the way dont they teach in school how to read and write in somali?. The place i live we use to have a teacher who would teach us somali all the way to high school.
 
I have never had lessons on writing Somali. what i know i learned from my parents and my parents aren't very literate. So my knowlege of the Somali language is very limited.
 
Amina2 said:
actually thats the easy part for me. i understand it very well. its the double a's that confuse me. plus i speak a diff dialect of somali. Like af xamar(did i spell that right?)
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:sl: Well that dialect is more Italian influenced, and I'd say the Northern dialect is more Arabic influenced, but the Somali is said to be the most pure.
 
ok that make since. what language influenced Af maymay or eylaay(not sure if i spelled it right)
 
:sl: Maba aqaan walle iyo bille, aniga maba fahmi af maay maay lakiin Eelayga ba af afkaas ku hadlaan, I don't know who else speaks it, sorry.
 
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Af maymay and eylaay? haven't heard of those dialects either..
 
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(To Amirah) ^ Yeah, you're reer ruqoy (sp?), right? I'm... *keeps silent*.

Some dialects are awfully hard to understand. I know this one sister who sounds like she's speaking a different language, I can't remember where she's from though. Most of the Somali sisters can't understand her either.
 
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Oooh so eylaay are the people and may-may is the language? kool. Hoyo just told be those people live in baydaba (summin' like that)..
 
Faizah said:
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(To Amirah) ^ Yeah, you're reer ruqoy (sp?), right? I'm... *keeps silent*.

Some dialects are awfully hard to understand. I know this one sister who sounds like she's speaking a different language, I can't remember where she's from though. Most of the Somali sisters can't understand her either.
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:sl: Lol Ruqoy kulaha, waa Reer Waqooyi.

Amirah, yep they live in the 'Baidoa' area. They're said to be really beautiful too. But every clan claims that. :okay:
 
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Ok, no need to rub it in! It sounds like ruqooy when you say it, any way! *tries to redeem herself*
 
:w: LOL You're so adoreable sis. :D No worries. I understand the Waqooyi dialect a little more to be honest, mostly because the Reer Xamar one is very Italian-influenced.
 
Lol Faizah! :rolleyes:

Xamare is very coarse when spoken might I say! and Reer waqooyis just love to shout alot! ;D
 

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