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Encyclopedia > Somali

Somali can refer to:

  • a Cushitic people, who inhabit and are native to much of the Horn of Africa and in particular the Somali Peninsula
  • by ethnicity, a member of the Somali people; by nationality, a citizen of Somalia
  • the Somali language
  • of or relating to Somalis
  • the cat breed Somali

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Ethnologue 14 report for language code:SOM (481 words)
Northern Somali is the basis for Standard Somali.
It is readily intelligible to speakers of Benaadir Somali, but difficult or unintelligible to Maay and Digil speakers, except for those who have learned it through mass communications, urbanization, and internal movement.
Hawiye northern clans (Habar Gidir) speak a dialect of Common Somali similar to the adjacent Daarood clans, while Hawiye southern clans (especially Abgaal and Gaaljaal) speak the Benaadir dialect of Common Somali.
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