Rer Bare people
The Reer Barre (or Rer Shabelle) are a tribe in the Gedo region of
Shabele River, near Somalia, who currently speak Somali. They appear to have shifted to Somali from a now-extinct language. Reer means "family" and Barre is a name, altogether meaning "Barre family". They are descendants of Barre Abdille.[citation needed
]
Language and origins
Their unattested but apparently non-Somali languageLionel Bender in 1975:
D. W. Mcclure, Sr. first reported to me the presence of
Ganale and Dawa Rivers as well, and that they are referred to by the Somali as rer bare (rer means sub-tribein Somali.) They are also known as adona, and they speak Somali as well as their own language... I cannot say with certainty whether they speak one or more languages of what any of them is... So far no linguistic data has come my way.
Others have linked the Reer Barre to the
Somali Bantu" in the Jubba River valley of southern Somalia, the descendants of Bantu slaves imported from other parts of East Africa in the 19th century. Tobias Hagmann refers to them as "Somalised Bantu".[2] According to Ulrich Braukämper
:
The Adonē, a dark-skinned Somali-speaking population on the banks of the Wabi Shäbälle, are obviously the offspring of Bantu slaves who settled and expanded there since the 19th century.[3]
A British hunter, Colonel Swayne, who visited Imi in February 1893, relates that he was the guest of Gabba Oboho, a chief of the Adona, for several days.[4]
References
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rer Bare". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Hagmann, Tobias (2005): Challenges of decentralisation in Ethiopia's Somali Region, Briefing for Review of African Political Economy Vol. 32, No. 103, p. 5
- ISBN 978-3-8258-5671-7(p. 15, 137)
- ^ H. G. C. Swayne, "A Trip to Harar and Imé", Geographical Journal, 2 (September 1893), p. 251
Bibliography
- Bender, M. L. The Ethiopian Nilo-Saharans. Artistic Printers, Addis Ababa 1975.
External links
- Ahmed Yusuf Farah, United Nations Development Programme: Permanent Agricultural Settlements Along The Webi Shabelle River In Gode Zone Of The Ethiopian Somali National Regional State (1995) (PDF)
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