Some considerations regarding the Gile - Billao hybrid

[Rafngard]

Originally Posted by TVV

...more precisely the Issa tribe, as well as the time period to the early 20th century.

This is mostly pedantic, but I can hear my Somali teacher yelling when I read this. The Issa are a clan ("qabil" is the Somali word), not a tribe. There is only one Somali tribe.

...that said a lot of young Somalis in the diaspora will use the term "tribe" for "qabil" also. But my teacher was very, very adamant about this.

Have fun,
Leif