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Many Somalis in Yemen now speak Arabic instead of their native Somali language due to language shift. [7] But also due to the fact that there are no Somali teachers in the refugee camps or enough budget to allocate funds to teach the Somali language. [8] Many Somalis have returned back to their homeland deeming its safe enough to return.
Yemen in turn unconditionally opened its borders to Somali nationals following the outbreak of the civil war in Somalia in the early 1990s. [7]Over the ensuing interim period, the Yemeni authorities maintained relations with Somalia's newly established Transitional National Government and its successor the Transitional Federal Government.
Mai-Mai, commonly spelled Maay Maay (also known as Af-Maay, Af-Maymay, or simply Maay; the Mai-Mai spelling is rarely used but it is most often spoken), is one of the Somali languages. It is mainly spoken in Somalia and adjacent parts of Ethiopia and Kenya. In Somalia, it is spoken in South West state, Jubaland state, and Banadir.
Somali-owned businesses line the streets of Deira, the Dubai city centre, [66] with only Iranians exporting more products from the city at large. [67] Relations between the modern-day territories of Somalia and Yemen stretch back to antiquity. A number of Somali clans trace descent to the latter region. [68]
These tongues collectively share many features with the Old South Arabian languages (Epigraphic South Arabian), as spoken by the ancient Sabaeans, Minaeans, and Qatabanians. [7] Additionally, many Mehri in Yemen speak as a second language Arabic. Al-Hamdani wrote about the language of Mahra and Al-Shihr:
The language is spoken in the Somali territories within North Eastern Kenya, namely Wajir County, Garissa County and Mandera County. [24] [25] The Somali language is regulated by the Regional Somali Language Academy, an intergovernmental institution established in June 2013 in Djibouti City by the governments of Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia ...
As the capital city of Yemen, nearly 40% of jobs in Sanaʽa are in the public sector. [34] The city is also an important centre for commerce and industry in Yemen. [34] Additionally, like many other cities in the developing world, Sanaʽa has a large informal sector that is estimated to constitute 32% of nongovernmental employment as of 2002. [34]
The Somali languages form a group that are part of the Afro-Asiatic language family. They are spoken as a mother tongue by ethnic Somalis in Horn of Africa and the Somali diaspora . Even with linguistic differences, Somalis collectively view themselves as speaking dialects of a common language.