Somalia Is in the Arab League. So Are Somalis Arabs? 🇸🇴

Somali is a Cushitic language, a distant cousin of Arabic. But centuries of Gulf of Aden trade and Islam tied Somalia to Arabia, and in 1974 it joined the Arab League.
Its constitution makes Somali the official language and calls Arabic the second language.
Arab, African, or both? Somalis: what do YOU say? Tell me below.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_language · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Arab_League · https://news.mongabay.com/reference/country_studies/somalia/HISTORY.html

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Narration: AI voice.
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