Jabutí language

[ToughGong]

Jabutí is a nearly extinct Yabutian language that as of 1990 was spoken by only five people in Rondônia, Brazil, at the headwaters of the Rio Branco.

http://www.sorosoro.org/en/jabuti-language-family

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Native Indians are screwed.

BTW what does Djibouti mean?

[ToughGong]

Native Indians are screwed.

BTW what does Djibouti mean?

I don't know but I've heard it said it means Jab Buti
Buti is what Somalis call bears and apparently there once was a ship with bears on board on it's way to a zoo in Europe that ran aground in the area.Hence the Jab

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Interesting. How do we even have a word for bears if there aren't any back home? Also, whats a ship full of bears doing off the coast of Somalia?

[ToughGong]

Hey! don't shoot the messenger m8.

[AbdiJohnson]

Goes to show you they weren't ever interested in protecting their "identity" to allow their population to reach such a level. They have no one to blame except themselves.

I am,

Abdi "Just nature running its course" Johnson

[ToughGong]

AbdiIsmail read this

UJEEDOOYINKA MAGACYADA MAGAALOOYINKA SOOMAALIYEED

http://allsomalia.com/ujeedooyinka-maga ... maaliyeed/


Those that commented have no interest in debating the origins of the name

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Lol soomaalidu waxay doonan ayey iska qoraan. We're the only people who present conjecture as fact.

By the way the word madaxkuti is interesting. I have a theory that its a combination of madax=head and kuti=dog in South Asian languages.

[Basra-]

Tough aka Xplaya aka obese qaniis....

[ToughGong]

Lol soomaalidu waxay doonan ayey iska qoraan. We're the only people who present conjecture as fact.

By the way the word madaxkuti is interesting. I have a theory that its a combination of madax=head and kuti=dog in South Asian languages.

Has a dogs head A bear fits that discribtion dee

[Lillaahiya]

I love reer Jabuuti and their heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeys

[Skippa]

buti is what dhag dheer was... The name likely has cafar roots though...

[ToughGong]

buti is what dhag dheer was... The name likely has cafar roots though...

I don't know but they were glad to get rid of her

"Dhagdheer dhimatoo dhulkii nabadeey"