Saturday, April 7, 2012

GARRE WARDE JIIDO DIR GROUPS NOTES ACCORDING TO WESTERN WRITERS NOT ACCURATE

JIIDDU



JIIDDU (JIDDU, AF-JIIDDU) [JII] 20,000 to 60,000 (1992). Lower Shabeelle Bay and Middle Jubba regions, Qoryooley, Dhiinsoor, Jilib, and Buurhakaba districts. Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, East, Somali. A distinct language from Somali and Tunni, usually grouped under the Digil dialects or languages. Different sentence structure and phonology from Somali. Closer to Somali than to Baiso. Spoken by the Jiiddu clan. Ethnic Jiiddu in Bale Province, Ethiopia speak Oromo as mother tongue.


Heine in 1978 classified Bayso as the Northern branch of Omo-Tana (The Sam languages)



while Sasse (1975) established the Western branch with the closely related languages Dasenech, Arbore and Elmolo. Rendille and Boni are included together with Somali, the Eastern branch of Omo-Tana.


However, there are two distinct communities indigenous to Gidiccho island speaking different languages: the Bayso-Bayso is the name of a village on the southern tip of Gidiccho island and the name used by the entire community to refer to themselves as an ethnic group, as well as to their language


 Right bank of shabeel in the region arboheero near qoriyole.The two lineages primary jiddu, sifir and Wajis, son of Digil food.The oral traditions of the clan reports of fighting with Warday -Orma


The Kenya-Somali border area is dominated by the Somali ethnic group. But a number of other ethnic groups live in the border areas, especially in the northern Kenya border zone. Many of these groups – such as the Garre, Gabra, and Rendille -- possess highly ambiguous and fluid ethnic identities, making it difficult to categorize them as “Somali,” “Oromo” or other. The Garre, for instance, are considered a Somali clan but speak a dialect of Oromiyya. The flexible, fluid nature of ethnic identity among the Garre, Gabra, and Rendille has historically been a useful tool for negotiating relations between the dominant groups.



The Somalis themselves are much more hybrid in the Tana-Jubba interriverine area than in central and northern Somalia. In the process of south-western expansion across the Jubba river and into present day Kenya, Somali clans freely employed the practice of clan “adoption” (shegad) either as newcomers seeking protection from a stronger clan or as a means of absorbing weaker groups. As Cassanelli notes, “during the periodic migrations of Somali nomads from the drier central plains into the interriverine area, the incidence of contractual clientship multiplied.”13



The result is that many members of Somali clans in the border areas are shegad – some are originally Orma, Wardei, while others are adopted members from another Somali clan. Occasionally, when political advantage dictates, adopted clans can “rediscover” their original identity and revoke their old clan identity. Ethnic identity in the region is not nearly as fixed and immutable as observers often assume, but is rather used as a tool by communities to pursue what they need – protection and access to resources. As Laitin and Samatar noted two decades ago, “the essence of great politics in the Somali context is the clever reconstruction of one’s clan identity.”14



ORMA (UARDAI, WADAI, WARDAY, WARDEI) (Sanye) [ORC] 55,000 (1994 I. Larsen BTL), including 5,000 Munyo. Garissa and Tana River districts, Northeastern and Coast provinces. The Oromo spoken in the Lower Jubba Region of Somalia.



55,000 (1994 I. Larsen BTL). Population includes 5,000 Munyo.


Warday Madow dialect -Warra Daayu dialect


The Orma controlled that area until the mid or late 19th century. They move from the lower Tana River inland toward Kitui District during rainy season.



Uardai, Wadai, Warday, Wardei



Munyo (Korokoro, Munyo Yaya), Waata, Orma. Distinct from Boran. Munyoyaya is an ethnic group speaking a dialect of Orma. The Pokomo who are mainly agriculturists.


The Wasanye: this is a small ethnic grouping to be found around the Kipini area around Witu/Boni forest and are also scattered in the Tarasaa area of Garsen division. They tend to be traditionalist, and have no specific occupation except that they are wanderers in the forest and bushes gathering wild fruits and honey.

The rest of the southern interior, from Garissa on the Tana River to Marerey on the Jubba river, is inhabited mainly by a number of Absame/Darood clans, including Mohamed Zubeir, Makabal, Aulihan, Talamoge, and Jidwak. Along the lower Tana and Jubba river valleys, the main ethnic groups are non-Somali. Bantu farmers reside along the Jubba river, and in the Tana river valley the Pokomo (Bantu farmers), Orma and Wardey (Cushitic/mainly pastoral) are the principal inhabitants. A small group of hunter-gatherers, the Boni, live in the northeastern coastal corner of Kenya.



 a small group of Dir near the Ethiopian border; and the Garre in El Wak district.



 To the east, in Marsabit Province, the Borona, Rendille, Gabra, (all related to the Oromo) and Oromo predominate.



market places and at Hola, and Lamu District headquarters. There are three major roads i.e. Malindi – Hola road, Malindi - Lamu road and Garissa – Hola road.


Garre clan-Gurra


Gurra Dir , Gurre, Garre, a group of people living between the
Webi Gestro and Dumale, of Somali origin but much mixed



with other groups; also a clan of the Mecha/Liban/Ammaya Oromo W gurra 'ear'

On the other hand, the Garre clan in Mandera district has forged an alliance with their Garre kinsmen in Ethiopia and Somalia. This alliance is also backed by Ororsame section of the Marehaan, a section that has been in loggerheads with the Eldera.

The majority of Somalis in Mandera are from the Murule,Degodia and Garre Somali clans, with a minority representing the Marehan,Sheekal,Sharmooge and Leysan clans.

Jiiddu and Tunni clans are classified as separate languages. Most Garre in Somalia speak Garre as a mother tongue, but Maay is the mother tongue of some. The Garre language is close to Boni. (Most Garre and Ajuuraan in Kenya speak an Oromo language named after them: Garre-Ajuuraan.)

Tradition also says that the Gabbra Miigo, the Sakuye Miigo and the Gabbra of Kenya's Eastern Province later originated directly from the Garre Somali. ...
About 20,000 Garre in Kenya also speak Maay. The Leysaan clan of the Somalis also speak Maay and are allied with the Digil-Rahawiin, as is the Daraawe division of the Garre clan.

GARRE (AF-GARRE) [GEX] 50,000 or more (1992); perhaps several hundred thousand in the ethnic group. Dominate areas of southern Somalia, especially in the Wanle Weyn-Buur Hakaba area; Baydhaba, Dhiinsoor, Buurhakaba, and Qoryooley districts; Middle and Lower Shabeelle and Bay regions. Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, East, Somali. Part of the Hawiye clan family. They consider themselves to be one people with the Garreh in Kenya, although they now speak different languages. Some ethnic Garre in Somalia speak Maay as mother tongue. Reported to be linguistically close to Boni. Muslim. Survey needed.








The Garre are divided into Tuff and Quranyowa sub-clans; the Tuffs further into Ali and Adola; the Quranyow into Asare and Furkesha.


The Garre


Because he was bearded, the Somalis named him "Garrow" or Gardheer." He married a Hawiye woman who sired two boys and a girl. The first-born was Tuff and Qur'an, the second born and the daughter was named Makka.

He had two sons, Mohamed and Tuf. Mohamed died after he had one son Quran (quranyow). Quran was raised by his uncle Mr. Tuf. Later on he married Mako who is Tuf’s daughter and Quran’s first cousin. Then he (Quran) fathered two sons, Furkesha and Assaree. Assarree.had two sons, Bana and Kiliya.

Furkesha, the brother of Assarre , had seven sons, they were Hodkoya, Birkaya, Hoytra, Darawa, Kalwesha, Hurdeq and “SUBUKITRE”.

Also, the second half of the Gharri branch is Tuf. Tuf is believed to be the uncle and father in law’s of Quran or quranyow, and he had two sons, Ali and Adola. Adola had eight sons. They were Kalwina, Kalmassa, Bursuni, Odomai, Maqabille, maid, Rer Mug and Tubadi.

The Tuf’s second son Ali had three SONS; their names were Kalula, Tawulle and Sabdhawa.

Boni aweer waata sanye boni Ogada wata bala Lamu Tana River District Garissa.

Wasanye Dahalo Ogada Wata Gedi Waboni Wata -bale

Pre Hawiye Gilale Ormale Hon Daule Hober Hawadle Garre

HUBER SETTLE WITH HADAMO BAKOOL

GILALE SETTLE DOI

HON ARE SUBCLAN OF HARIEN

GARRE REEWIN TODOBADA AW DIGIL

Omo-Tana

Glaboid Dasenech Elmolo Arbore Bayso

Sam Rendile Somali Aweer

Oromo- and Konsoid Bussa Gidole Kanso

Garre Awdheegle Doolow and Dawa and dispersed in Shabeelle. Mega near Eel Waaq. Garre of Galaana or Garre Liban speak Oromo Borana

Garre Tuuf are Afarta Gembar Ali and Afar Reer Muug. The Quranyow Kili and Furkesho. Qalweyne Gare tuuf Gob Nobels.

Pre Hawiye Giilaale Awaramale Hoon Saransoor

Gardheere

Garre, Gilaale Awaramale hoon. Garjaan son of Maataay son of Gardheere

Gilaale—dispersed in Dooy and Sebit to Afgooye

Awaramale are three clans Garable, Gamboleen and “Irinta Passa Jubba

Hoon Baydhabo xuddur

Gardheer Iise, Misirre dirsame galjecel Digoodiya

Bali Headwaters of the Juba and a major dispersal-point of 1600 Oromo speakers

Turton Garre Prehawiye first to occupy Jubba and Tana Rivers Found shabeele dolo and Wabi Gesho and Webi Mana and upper reaches of river Dawa borders of Kenya.



Boon regions of Koyti, Belesh Kogani, Afmadow kismayo Jilib. Jilib Boon Guurale. Buulo Boon Haaway areas the Du’aad in the geedi region.

Bajun have a Garre group from the Garre Quraanyow of the Kili or Kiliya.

Aweer use Ijii or Iyi similar to Somali Aji term ( Hiji son of Irir). The Kilii have name Kablaalle similar to Kablalax Darood name.

Garre oral tradition they Migrated several centuries ago from the upper reaches of Jubba River along the west side of the river to Afmadow. Boon Garre of Gelib and whole are are found the Garre traces.

Boon Garre of Jilib, mouth of river others at River Tana

Recent German research on Africa: Language and culture : projects of the ... - Page 106

by Bernd Heine, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Institute for Scientific Co-operation - African languages - 1982

Together with Somali it forms the eastern (or Dad) group of the Sam languages

... do not refer to themselves as Aweer but rather as boon, a Somali word from

Jubba Tana Hunter gatherers Booni Kilii Aweer number 2000 and Eyle and Dahalo in Lake tana district Mouth of Tana by Lamu

Boni aweer waata sanye boni Ogada wata bala Lamu Tana River District Garissa.

Wasanye Dahalo Ogada Wata Gedi Waboni Wata -bale



HUBER SETTLE WITH HADAMO BAKOOL

GILALE SETTLE DOI

HON ARE SUBCLAN OF HARIEN

GARRE REEWIN TODOBADA AW DIGIL


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