Mirifle

E753670

Mirifle is a major Somali clan-family primarily inhabiting southern Somalia, particularly associated with speakers of the Maay dialect.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Mirifle canonical 4
Mirifle Rahanweyn 1
Raxanweyn Mirifle 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Somali clan-family
alternativeName Mirifle Rahanweyn
linked to: Mirifle

Raxanweyn Mirifle
linked to: Mirifle
associatedDialectGroup Digil-Mirifle dialects
associatedEthnicGroup Somali people
associatedLanguageVariety Maay dialect
associatedSufiOrders Ahmadiyya
Qadiriyya
centerOfPopulation Baidoa
clanFamilyType Digil-Mirifle
contrastedWith Darod clan-family
linked to: Darod clans

Dir clan-family
linked to: Dir clans

Hawiye clan-family
linked to: Hawiye clans

Isaaq clan-family
linked to: Isaaq clan
country Somalia
culturalArea Inter-riverine region of Somalia
linked to: southern Somalia
demographicStatusInBay majority population group
dominantInLocalAdministration Baidoa
ethnolinguisticCategory Somali Digil-Mirifle
hasSubclans multiple lineages and subclans
historicalEconomicRole grain production in southern Somalia
livestock trade in southern Somalia
historicalRole key role in politics of southern Somalia
languageBranchOfDialectSpoken Somali language
linked to: Somali
languageFamilyOfDialectSpoken Afroasiatic languages
languageSubfamilyOfDialectSpoken Cushitic languages
linked to: Cushitic
majorSettlementRegion Bakool region
Bay region
Gedo region
Hiraan region
linked to: Hiiraan region

Lower Juba region
Lower Shabelle region
Middle Juba region
partOf Rahanweyn
politicalInfluenceRegion South West State of Somalia
primaryRegion southern Somalia
primaryReligionPractice Sufi Islam
recognizedAs major Somali clan-family
religion Islam
religiousBranch Sunni Islam
socialStructure segmentary lineage system
traditionalConflictResolution council of elders
traditionalLivelihood agropastoralism
pastoralism
rain-fed agriculture
usesCustomaryLaw xeer
usesWritingSystemForLanguage Arabic script
Latin alphabet
Osmanya script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maay associatedEthnicGroup Mirifle
Mirifle alternativeName Mirifle Rahanweyn
linked to: Mirifle
Mirifle alternativeName Raxanweyn Mirifle
linked to: Mirifle
Rahanweyn people subClan Mirifle