Age: older than Mahatiri.

Hi,

I am glad to hear your concern. I only wish to mention two points that maybe of benefit. The Reewung language or Af-Maay language is much older than that of the maha-tiri. This statement is based the Ph.D. work of Prof. Nuh. and the work of
Lee V. Cassanelli. This research is based on the same standard that most linguists use to date a language and its' people; they check letters like W and Y, SH and Y. You see in linguistics, as time passes, they have found that some letters change i.e. W to Y or from SH to K. Here is an example with these changes. In Maay "Weel" means to 'do', in Maha-tiri it changes to "Yeel" which means the same thing. Second example, in Af-Maay "Sheeng" means 'bring', in Af-Mahatiri it changes to 'keen' which again means the same thing. The way this is used to date peoples or societies that use a certain languege is as follows: a W will almost always change to Y as time passes, and a Y to a K. Here is an example in English. Jesus used to be Yesus, John used to be Yohan[it is possible for one letter to change into two different letters or visa versa but this is consistent].

Second, the Reewung people are civilizationaly more advanced than the people nomad tribes in Somalia that speak Maha-tiri. In other words they have evolved beyond the closed societies that rely tribalism; which is based on kinship, and have evolved to the next step after tribalism to the building of a nation. This is why the non-Maay people call the the Maay speaking people Reewunng or Raxan-weyn, which means the big party or the big nation. However, I could go on more on each of this subjects but this is not the place nor does time permit it.

Having said all this I must one warn you of the strong opposition the Mahatiri speaking Somalis will have towards this scientifically proven common sense knowledge. And all I have to say about this is "welcome to my world".

Good luck, and take good care of those kids they are precious.

Yours,
Liibang Juwaarey.

P.S. If you need children's book that are written in Af-Maay or Af-Reewung and are culturally more appropriate to these kids please do not hesitate to contact me.