SOMALIA CULTURE

THE CULTURE OF HAS MANY TRADITIONS INFLUENCED BY
COUNTRIES.  SOME COUNTRIES SUCH AS THE ARABIAN PENNISULA AND INDIA HAD INFLUENCE.  SOMALIA HAS BEEN CALLED A NATION OF BARDS, WITH  VARIOUS STORY TELLING TRADITIONS. THEY ALSO HAVE A RICH MUSICAL HERITAGE CENTERED ON SOMALIA AND IT ORIGINATED  FROM AFRO ASIATIC LANGUAGE.  THEY HAD A LONG LOST ANCIENT SCRIPT AND SOME FOLKS MAY USE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS FOR TRANSCRIBING THE LANGUAGE.  ENGLISH IS  WIDELY USED .  THEIR RELIGION IS ENTIRELY MUSLIMS.  SURFISM IS ALSO A MYSTICAL DIMENSION OF ISLAM.  IT IS A MALE DOMINATED RELIGION.  BY THE 19YJ CENTURYBY THE 19TH CENTURY SOMALIA WOMEN HAD THEIR OWN INSTITUTION.

THE CLAN GROUPINGS ARE PATRILINEAL.SOMALIA MEN WEAR MACAWIS, WHICH IS A SARONG SKIRT.  THEY WRAP THEIR HEADS WITH A TURBAN.  THEY ALSO WEAR JEANS AND A TEE SHIRT.

WOMEN COMMONLY BEAR A GUNTIINO, A LONG STRETCH CLOTH TIED OVER THE SHOLDER AND DRAPED AROUND THE WAIST.  MARRIED WOMEN WEAR HEAD SCARVES. AND A SHAUL THAT COVERS THEIR BODIES.  THEIR TRADITIONAL GARB IS A JIBAB.

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