Benadiri Somali

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Benaadir
Af Reer Xamar
Native to Somalia
Region Benadir coast
Ethnicity Hawiye & Benadiri
Native speakers
1.9 million (2021) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog bena1268

Benadiri Somali, also referred to as "Coastal Somali" (Somali : Af Reer Xamar), is a dialect of the Somali language. It is primarily spoken by the Benadiri people, who inhabit the southern Banaadir coast of Somalia and into Kenya. [1] [2]

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Overview

Benadiri Somali is spoken on the Benadir coast, [3] spanning from Hobyo to south of Merca including Mogadishu, as well as in the immediate hinterland. The coastal dialects have additional phonemes that do not exist in Standard Somali. [4] Linguist Giorgio Banti states the dialect has loan words from Harari language. [5]

Benadiri Somali is also referred to as Coastal Somali or Af-Reer Xamar ("Language of the People of Hamar"). The dialect is widely considered a southern coastal dialect. [6]

Varieties

Blench (2006) structures the dialect into three general subdivisions: [7]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Interactive language map: Somalia". Clear Global. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  2. ↑ Benadiri Somali reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  3. ↑ Frawley, William (2003). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: 4-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 410. ISBN   978-0-19-513977-8.
  4. ↑ Andrew Dalby (1998) Dictionary of languages: the definitive reference to more than 400 languages, Columbia University Press, p. 571, ISBN   0-7136-7841-0.
  5. ↑ Banti, Giorgio. Strata on loanwords from Arabic and other Semitic languages in Northern Somali. De Gruyter Mouton. p. 202.
  6. ↑ Martin, Orwin (2018-11-09). Papers from the Linguistics Workshop: Somali Language and Literature at the Hargeysa Cultural Centre, December 2015. Ponte Invisible. pp. 91–92. ISBN   978-88-88934-59-4.
  7. ↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)

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