#somali
Glottal Stop
Languages that have a phonemic glottal stop /ʔ/ - about 40% of all human languages. This is a very widespread consonant except in Indo-European, Niger-Congo, Turkic, Uralic, Mongolic, Dravidian, Koreanic and Japonic languages.
It’s almost universally present in the indigenous languages of the Americas, in Afro-Asiatic languages, in Austroasiatic and Austronesian languages, in Papuan languages, North Caucasian langauges, and in some Khoe, Sino-Tibetan, Daic, Uralic, Iranian, Turkic and Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages. It’s also present in Estuary and Scouse English as in ‘watter’ as /woːʔɐ/.
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Languages that use “ciao” or a similar version descended from Italian as a greeting or an informal goobye
Present in: Portuguese (tchau), Spanish from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Catalan, Sicilian, Maltese, Venetian, Lombard, Romansh, German (tschau), Swiss German, every Slavic language except Polish and Belarussian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian (tsau), Greek, Albanian (qao), Romanian (ceau), Hungarian (csaó), Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya, Malaysian. The Vietnamese “chào” is not related to Italian, so it’s unmarked there.
Edit: the map only includes those languages that use ‘ciao’ as the most common informal way of greeting/goodbye, not as part of slang, argots or people who use it just to sound cool. For example, in Portuguese, Maltese or Latvian it has surpassed the older forms of saying goodbye in informal situations for all social classes.
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If you’re still on a Mandalorian withdrawal because it ended, I have an anime rec just for you!
Somali and the Forest Spirit is here to cure your post depression after the mandalorian ended. Here we follow travelers in a magical world filled with goblins, spirits and abnormal creatures. The story mainly focuses on the bond between a masked hero and his daughter.
You can watch it on crunchyroll (if you have subscription) or on kissanime.com.
This anime definitely gave me some mandalorian vibes and so far I’m loving it. This anime just recently aired so it’s barely on its 2nd episode. Be sure to check it out each Thursday for another new episode!
Somali And Eri
Watch me draw it here = https://youtu.be/KOtj9Uu7HlE
This was something I wanted to draw for awhile.
I love these 2!
Eri is from my hero academia.
Somali is from Somali the anime.
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African-Caribbean Night 2016 at the University of Washington featuring Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Oromia.
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ATTENTION
Fans of
Somali and the Forest Spirit
Please consider supporting the manga author Yako Gureishi by subscribing to their Pixiv Fanbox - it’s like Patreon, but in Japanese!
With help from fans, they may be able to continue Somali’s story…!
20-year-old Somali model Iman during her press conference at the home of photographer Peter Beard in New York City on October 15, 1975.
Photos by Ron Galella
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“I wear my hijab as my crown. It takes time to grow into that. When I was younger, I was almost ashamed. People would bully me for not having hair; for looking like an alien. Having that taunting associated with wearing my hijab made me nearly want to pull away from it, but it’s my spiritual identity. When I’m walking the runway I want people to see that yes, I’m wearing a hijab — but I’m also a million other things. I want us to get to a place where we just see women.” —Halima Aden for VOGUE Arabia’s April issue.
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this is uour brain on somali squirrelflight
ive had this design idea since 7th grade lol look at these fuckers
