Somali voice over, natively reviewed.
Somali has a strong oral tradition, and radio and poetry shape how audiences expect it to sound.
Accents and variants of Somali.
- Standard Somali (Northern)
- The standard of media and education.
- Southern varieties
- Maay and other varieties of the south.
- Diaspora voice
- A voice for communities in Europe and North America.
What a native Somali reviewer checks.
- Not Arabic
- Somali uses the Latin script and has its own grammar.
- Gender
- Nouns are masculine or feminine.
- Poetic register
- Public content often uses a more formal and poetic style.
Writing for Somali.
- Radio style
- Written for listening.
- Arabic and English words
- Common. Agree how each is said.
- Numbers
- Agree how figures are read.
Somali voice over: questions.
Do diaspora audiences differ?
Often they mix in English or Scandinavian words.
Do we need a native reviewer?
Yes.
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