Are Somali and Arabic (Language) similar?
Somali and Arabic are both Afro-Asiatic languages. Within that group of languages are more groups – like the Cushitic languages and the Semitic languages. Arabic is Semitic and Somali is Cushitic. So one can assume that while they are similar in a few ways, they are very different, which is true. I’m Somali and I know a few Arabic phrases and based on what I know, they are more different than they are similar. One of my aunts was born and raised in Yemen (an Arab country) and she told me that the languages are very different from each other. Some similarities are some of the sounds we make in both languages (which are not present in English). For example, in Somali, we have a hard “h” sound symbolized by the x in Somali writing. Arabs have the same sound but it’s symbolized by the letter “ha” (in Arabic letters). We also have the sound “kha” as do the Arabs as well as qa, and a hard d (dhal). But the Arabs have the gh sound (I don’t think Somali does) and they have “z”. Somalis don’t h
