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How come your never explore the tigrinya -tigray, amara, gurage,chebo abtirsi.

Are you mix of somal/Oromoo?

He is cadaan.

He is cadaan.

But he speaks afaan somaal.

Yes. He is interested in that kind of stuff.

How come your never explore the tigrinya -tigray, amara, gurage,chebo abtirsi.

Are you mix of somal/Oromoo?

I have actually explored these, I just don't know much about them. I know that Habeshas keep records of their lineage and I have a couple of them on abtirsi.com.
I only know a little bit of af-Maxaa

James y do u support 9 states in somalia each tribe wit different state?? Also dat map u posted is not correct u favored 1 tribe over da others!

James, will you be publishing any book?

Mr. Whiteman and his ''burden''. Talow yaa shaqadan u dirsaday?

The funny thing is, if he didn't do it, nobody would have.

Most of what he has in abtirsi.com , is not accurate. I wonder where he got them from.

Lol abtirsi.com is redundant. The whole point of abtirsi is that it's oral.

Yes because Somalis have this aversion to record keeping and writing.

James y do u support 9 states in somalia each tribe wit different state?? Also dat map u posted is not correct u favored 1 tribe over da others!

9? That seems like a bit of an arbitrary number?

James, will you be publishing any book?

I have no plans to.

Most of what he has in abtirsi.com , is not accurate. I wonder where he got them from.

If you have corrections I should make, feel free to either make them or bring them to my attention

Lol abtirsi.com is redundant. The whole point of abtirsi is that it's oral.

I actually agree, though I think the oral traditions of Somalis are already disappearing.

Yes because Somalis have this aversion to record keeping and writing.

Well, actually yes. Not aversion exactly, but the Somali language had no written form until the 19th century and the current alphabet was developed in the 20th. Literature before this was entirely in Arabic and very little of it was about anything of genealogical value, mostly religious treatises or poetry. There are actually many clans who have died out, and knowledge of them died with them, since there were no descendants to carry on the oral traditions, or the traditions have become lost or forgotten over the centuries.

Lol abtirsi.com is redundant. The whole point of abtirsi is that it's oral.

it helped me get my abtiris

Lol abtirsi.com is redundant. The whole point of abtirsi is that it's oral.

it helped me get my abtiris

You must be dooro or hutu then.