Those who knew the somali spoken deep in the miyi or baadiye didn't mix arabic and somali at least the ones who knew both languages like my grandfather. He AUN didnt like mixing two languages together. A lot of us who believe that somali is mainly arabic dont know enough somali to back up their claim. Somali is a much deeper language and is not limited to the words you are used to hearing. In boorama they had this somali dhaqan class and the teacher gave everyone a vocab quiz. It was a hundered question and I got a 13 percent. I didn't feel bad since reading somali was hard for me back then but niggas who were born and bread in somali countries where getting 20 and 30 percent. The highest score was 50 out of the high school kids. The highest grade from the adults was 83. Somali is a vast and beautiful language and is slowly being lost.
I agree. We need a ministry of Somali language to help preserve it. And instead of having foreign loan-words we can invent a somali word for it.
