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Post by Power Cosmic on Oct 3, 2005 13:07:07 GMT -5
That language seems very hard to speak. The words I've seen these guys type in forums seem nearly impossible to say. Indeed, that's what I find so fascinating about it. Which makes me wonder if all Cushitic languages are like that. I wonder in Somalis can largely understand the Oromo language? Wadaad?
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Post by Wadaad on Oct 3, 2005 13:10:04 GMT -5
Oromo? probably as much as an Englishman understands Dutch. They're numbers sound quite similar
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Post by Wadaad on Oct 3, 2005 13:15:47 GMT -5
All those clan names sound pretty cool. I've got to learn Somali. you wouldnt be the first of the caucasian persuasion to do so... www.qarxis.com/node/101a Ruskie and a Kraut beat you to it
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Post by wotan on Oct 3, 2005 13:19:02 GMT -5
nacala iyo qaaniska tahay ba ku yaal! aight!
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Post by Power Cosmic on Oct 3, 2005 13:22:54 GMT -5
Oromo? probably as much as an Englishman understands Dutch. They're numbers sound quite similar Oromo and Somali language look similar on paper but I guess they 're as distinct as can be as you say.
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Post by Crimson Guard on Oct 3, 2005 13:38:55 GMT -5
Wadaad do you also speak Swahili?
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Post by Wadaad on Oct 3, 2005 13:41:26 GMT -5
Wadaad do you also speak Swahili? Though swahili is much easier to learn, but no im not fluent but I can understand a swahili convo pretty well. My mom speaks it fluently (she was born and raised in Kenya)
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Post by Crimson Guard on Oct 3, 2005 13:53:16 GMT -5
AH OK...Cause I was reading that the language was pretty wide spread in places like East Africa-Somalia.
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Post by Wadaad on Oct 3, 2005 14:01:14 GMT -5
AH OK...Cause I was reading that the language was pretty wide spread in places like East Africa-Somalia. Swahili is spoken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, certain places in the D.R Congo, and Rwanda-Burundi (not too sure about Malawi) but not in the Horn of Africa. There are Somali diasporas in countries like Kenya and Tanzania who speak Swahili though
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Oct 3, 2005 14:02:21 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a Bantu thang.
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Post by Wadaad on Oct 3, 2005 14:05:07 GMT -5
yea Swahili has Bantu roots...but its more of a lingua franca really, with alot of borrowed words from Arabic, Persian, and Hindi. It developed out of necessity for Indian ocean trading
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Oct 3, 2005 14:06:51 GMT -5
Can the Swahili city states be considered a single civilization like the Greek city states usually are?
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Post by Wadaad on Oct 3, 2005 14:10:21 GMT -5
alot were quite independent from time to time, but AFAIK they were mostly under the auspices and were tributaries to the Zanzibari sultanates from Oman
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Post by Educate Me on Oct 3, 2005 17:14:01 GMT -5
Those cities were vassals of Oman? I didnt know that, how did they manage to take out the portuguese? or was it before Portugal owned the islands?
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Nist
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Post by Nist on Oct 3, 2005 17:40:07 GMT -5
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