It is not Qatar, UAE or China building this port. It is local business people building a modern port. This is a great achievement by Somali standard. It exactly looked the modern port of Djibouti, especially the Doraleh oil terminal. Furthermore, unlike Berbera and Boosaaso this town has a moderate mild temperature similar to Mogadishu or Hargeisa. The local business people who are building the port had also proclaimed that Garacad is open for every Somali regardless of their home region. Land permits are halted until urban planing is organized. Folks, this could be a new model to flow. Some of us were trying for ten years to build small fishing and minor " Bagaash" port in Lughaya with no avail. Since there are no UAE restrictions, the people of Puntland are building things with freedom.

Maakhiri, First, this is sort of expected, secondly, no need to start a new topic, This comes under: There is something brewing in Pirate enclave... Bombing in Garowe, Killings in Bosaso, shootouts in Gaalkacyo

It was a bad idea to stop Khat without planing. The major crimes that would go to the roof is the police and security people to use Khat bans to confiscate vehicles prom the people. There were large Khat farms in Arabsiyo area in nineteen eighties. While in high school, I went to one of the farms belonged to a friend and they were profitable. People should be allowed to cultivate and keep the cash inside their communities.

I would asume the british colonized Somaliland would have more english words and the italian colonized southern somalia would have more italian words.

Bari dialect is technically Waqooyi but due to the political situation as of the past 30 years, Waqooyi has morphed to be associated with Somaliland exclusively. It would make more sense if we agreed on parameters of what constituents to dialects and what regions. Is Af Maay Maay part of this continuum we're currently speaking about in this thread? What exactly is Konfuur? Is it the Banaadir accent? What about Central Somalia (ie Mudug etc)? If we can't agree on what is what, this thread is kinda useless and will probably confuse the OP more.

Two words I found funny as a kid growing up in Bilaajo Carab: Shuun and Laandheer.

As I said all the Somali words you keep mentioning are still very much in our vocabulary, I use them and everyone I know uses them although the use of foreign loan words is increasingly becoming normalised and many such foreign words have replaced Somali words in day to day conversations. There are however some words that have become more specialised and therefore lost their original meaning. For instance, the word cusbo is now exclusively used for the large salt crystals which is not suitable for cooking but used for other purposes. And the word bur is now the name for a type of fried snack usually eaten for affur during Ramadan. Many years ago when I was a teenager, I had a heated argument with a Cumaani carab guy in the presence of my now deceased cousin and in anger decided to use "my mother tongue" to swear at him so I used a word like dayuus or something similar which I can't remember. But alas the Arab guy understood what until then I thought was exclusive to us and so landed myself in hot water

The word erey is more likely used by a Reer Koonfur than a Reer Waqooyi. Vast majority of Reer Waqooyi use 'kelmad.' Kelmad = erey. Kelmado = ereyo. Hadal = talk. Wadahadal = talking/discussion. Diiq, a Soomaali word, means rooster. Daqiiq, a borrowed Carabi word and used by Reer Waqooyi, means flour. Reer Koonfur use the Soomaali word bur for flour.