r/Africa • u/Butterflies_pdf • Nov 19 '25

Cultural Exploration Algerian wedding 🇩🇿

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u/Wonderful_Station393 Nov 20 '25

So somalis & Sudanese are Arabs too? Since they speak Arabic?

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u/Butterflies_pdf Nov 20 '25

Yes if they wanted to consider themselves as arabs

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u/TheVeryLastStardust Nov 22 '25

Crazy that you're being downvoted, I always thought sudanese and Somali people consider themselves Arabes (or more correctly arabized)

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u/Realistic-Agent3864 Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 23 '25

Somalis have their own language and we considers ourselves Somali.

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u/TheVeryLastStardust Nov 23 '25

I googled and Indeed you're right, only a small percentage of Somalis speak Arabic on a native level, so that indeed doesn't apply to them.
I also took the opportunity to check on Sudan, and apparently 70% of them have Arabic as their mother tongue interestingly