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SomaliAny member of a large group of people occupying all of Somalia and parts of Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Their language is of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. Numbering more than seven million, the Somalis are divided into northern, central, and southern groups. All have been Muslim since at least the 14th century. They are primarily nomadic herdsmen who, because of intense competition for scarce resources, have been extremely individualistic and frequently involved in blood feuds or wars with neighbouring clans or peoples. A second category of Somalis are the townspeople and agriculturalists of the urban centres, especially along the coast of the Horn of Africa, many of whom act as commercial middlemen between the Arab world and the nomads of the interior. Somali 1. a member of a tall dark-skinned people inhabiting Somalia 2. the language of this people, belonging to the Cushitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages |
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| I have almost always lived with the Somalis, first with the Somalis of northwest Kenya, and then with the Somalis of Somalia. Alamo fired a Somali employee a few months after 9/11 when she refused to remove her head scarf during Ramadan. A study of Somali TB patients in Minnesota showed frequent lymphatic TB as well (18). |
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