Somali

East African nationality

Somali refers to the people, language, and culture of Somalia in East Africa and adjacent regions.

As a noun, a Somali is a member of this ethnic group; the Somali language is Cushitic, related to Oromo and Afar.

As an adjective: Somali cuisine, Somali diaspora.

The Somali cat is a longhaired breed developed from the Abyssinian.

nomadic

pastoralism

Mobile livestock husbandry

  • camelHumped desert mammal
  • goatHorned, bearded livestock
  • cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially

herding · livestock · grazing · migration · encampment · seasonal · caravan · watering · rangeland · dromedary

region

Mogadishu

Somalia's seat of government

Eritrea · Kenya · arid · savannah · coastline

diaspora

refugees

People seeking safety elsewhere

Columbus · remittances · resettlement · immigration · expatriates · community · integration · displacement · asylum · migration

famine

starvation

Extreme nutritional deprivation

aid · relief · hunger · famine · displacement · IDP · camps · NGO · UNICEF · 1992

clans

Bantu

African language family

ancestry · heritage · identity · traditions · customs · oral-history · genealogy

piracy

hijacking

Forcible seizure mid-transit

maritime · shipping · naval · coastguard · tanker · cargo · vessel · seafarers · armed · patrol

cuisine

halwa

Dense sugared confection

cardamom · sesame · dates · banana

language

script

Written words for performance

proverbs · dialect · literature · alliteration

Categories
Opposites
neighboring nationalities

SomaliEthiopian

From Africa's oldest nation

Kenyan · Eritrean · Yemeni · Sudanese · Ugandan

language family

SomaliAmharic

Ethiopian national language

Arabic · Swahili · English · French

colonial history

SomaliBritish

Of the United Kingdom

Italian · French · Ethiopian

Phrases
Family

Somalia, Somalian, Somalis

Familiarity
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