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I find their language sweet and they seem like real nice people.

Viva afar Allah give you democracy one day

Ayka badhawa maaxisee?

Try this as your first lesson, this is a overview of Cushtic languages in the HOA and the English translations.

E.g Afaraf ------------------- Afaan Oromo---------------------- Afka Somali--------------- English
Qado1 qari------------------------- Mana adi------------------------ Guricad ------------------------ A white house
Xer numu------------------------ Nama dhera------------------------ nin dheer ------------------------ A tall man
Qasa sagá ------------------------ Sa'a diimaa ------------------------ Sac guduuda -------------------- A red cow


another thing....." Contrary to Afaan Oromo and Afka Somali, where qualified nouns mostly
follow the qualifying adjectives, Afaraf ones predominantly preceed the
nouns they qualify."

More at http://www.afarfriends.org/Dok%20t%20we ... ration.pdf

Gara how do you say blood in your language?

Had I not seen the title of the video, I would have thought this was a somali song up to the 0:30s mark.

Dhiiga in Oromo is blood Sista.

Try this as your first lesson, this is a overview of Cushtic languages in the HOA and the English translations.

E.g Afaraf ------------------- Afaan Oromo---------------------- Afka Somali--------------- English
Qado1 qari------------------------- Mana adi------------------------ Guricad ------------------------ A white house
Xer numu------------------------ Nama dhera------------------------ nin dheer ------------------------ A tall man
Qasa sagá ------------------------ Sa'a diimaa ------------------------ Sac guduuda -------------------- A red cow


another thing....." Contrary to Afaan Oromo and Afka Somali, where qualified nouns mostly
follow the qualifying adjectives, Afaraf ones predominantly preceed the
nouns they qualify."

More at http://www.afarfriends.org/Dok%20t%20we ... ration.pdf

Some precisions

X in afar is equivalent to the somali DH
Q to C and
C to X

So rewritten into somali writings the afar words will be:
Cado Cari
dheer numu
casa saga
I see four words similar in somali, afar and oromo

B.

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E.g Afaraf ------------------- Afaan Oromo---------------------- Afka Somali--------------- English
Qado1 qari------------------------- Mana adi------------------------ Guricad ------------------------ A white house
Xer numu------------------------ Nama dhera------------------------ nin dheer ------------------------ A tall man
Qasa sagá ------------------------ Sa'a diimaa ------------------------ Sac guduuda -------------------- A red cow

oromo and soomaali is very close what i see here but AFAR as i see here they are not close to soomaali.

Nama dhera = nin dheer
nin=nama
dhera=dheer

even this one is close southern somali eccent
Mana adi= menin cad
mana=menin(guri)
adi( cad)

southern somalis call guri as word( meninka) ama minin)

and the somali name of cow
Sa'a diimaa ------------------------ Sa'ac gaduudan

the word diimaa, there is southern whichs DHIIIN=gaduudan

Somali and oromo share more words and r close in sentence construction.
But the two languages do not have the same "musicality": do not sound close.
Wheras afar strikingly sounds like somali.

B.

Try this as your first lesson, this is a overview of Cushtic languages in the HOA and the English translations.

E.g Afaraf ------------------- Afaan Oromo---------------------- Afka Somali--------------- English
Qado1 qari------------------------- Mana adi------------------------ Guricad ------------------------ A white house
Xer numu------------------------ Nama dhera------------------------ nin dheer ------------------------ A tall man
Qasa sagá ------------------------ Sa'a diimaa ------------------------ Sac guduuda -------------------- A red cow


another thing....." Contrary to Afaan Oromo and Afka Somali, where qualified nouns mostly
follow the qualifying adjectives, Afaraf ones predominantly preceed the
nouns they qualify."

More at http://www.afarfriends.org/Dok%20t%20we ... ration.pdf

Some precisions

X in afar is equivalent to the somali DH
Q to C and
C to X

So rewritten into somali writings the afar words will be:
Cado Cari
dheer numu
casa saga
I see four words similar in somali, afar and oromo

B.

ok which means afar

Qado1 qari= cado caddi
Xer numu=dher numo
somali
DHER NUMO= nin dheer

afar language unlike somali, adjectives is the first

Somali and oromo share more words and r close in sentence construction.
But the two languages do not have the same "musicality": do not sound close.
Wheras afar strikingly sounds like somali.

B.

i can agree whit you afar sounds more LIKE somali, for me afaan oromo when i listen sound much like AMHARA not too much close like amhara and tigrinya ARE CLOS TO BUTmusicality SOUNDS oromo close amhara to me ,

afar have somali words like (x)

ح

and more (c) or arabic

ع

Indeed, Yaa Dr,

Some eastern oromo do not sound amhara though only the northern oromo.
This can be xplained by centuries long interaction between Oromos and amharas in the north oromolands.

Probably Nortern somali sound afar, and the somali in the deep south like Gode Qallaafo and dagaxbuur might sound Bantu for the same reason.
(i am not sure though as i never interacted with south people)

B.

Appreciate all the input folks

If Allah permits i would love to travel all over the east of africa and meet the different people who have similarities in language:

Perhabs a documentary covering Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eriteria and all those termed the Kushitic people would do justice.

Rendile < i find fascinating also.

Rendilles are definitely descended of Somalis or at least Somali like people who left Somalia a long time ago and went on to populate Northern and central kenya. As expected they also heavily mixed with the local nilotids and bantus. Amazingly though, unlike Somalis in Somalia who with the arrival of Islam mostly forgot about and left their pre-islamic religions and traditions, rendilles have kept them. Rendille language(warning, this is Christian propaganda):

I just been told red cow are labelled "Dhiin" in Waqooyi too