Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Somali Arabic


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The result was   merge to Yemeni Arabic. Black Kite (t) (c) 20:51, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Somali Arabic

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The subject of the article does not appear to exist. The article has been tagged as unsourced since November, and a Google search of "Somali Arabic" likewise turns up no references to the dialect. There are, however, many references to the fact that the most common dialect of Arabic spoken in Somalia is the Yemeni dialect. Middayexpress (talk) 20:16, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 11:13, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

merge to Yemeni Arabic - can be broken out again if sources are forthcoming. Totnesmartin (talk) 12:40, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:24, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Yemeni Arabic or Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic. I can find no evidence of an Arabic-based creole language spoken in Somalia, at least not one using the name "Somali Arabic" or "Somali Creole Arabic" (which is the usual formula for the names of creole languages, cf. Jamaican Creole English and Haitian Creole French), but Ethnologue reports that there are some 11,500 speakers of Ta'izzi-Adeni in Somalia; and Modern Standard Arabic is an official language of Somalia. +Angr 14:48, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge with Yemeni Arabic where it can become a section on that page. Outback the koala (talk) 03:17, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep this appears valid, so we should at least try and find sources before deleting.--RM (Be my friend) 18:35, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I have tried to find sources: there aren't any. In fact, it doesn't appear valid. +Angr 18:40, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
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