Malika Zekaria when I was young someone told me harari and silte are originally turk! I was wondering that, do u have any idea? Masha Allah I love harari a good muslims
23andme is far more accurate because they expanded their project to asses African heritage specifically east African. The human genome project, like most things, largely served European communities. Then again, east African genes were harder to acquire given the perpetual geopolitical conflict. Insightful video though, saving loads of africans from wasting their money with other biotech giants. 💕
Amal Mohamed Yes, I saw some videos of people's DNA results that just didn't sound right at all. Some were getting a whole lot European, Native American and other things that just didn't match up with histort. Makes sense now. Thanks
Amal Mohamed It is true that you won't find Horn African dna outside the Middle Eastern region and at most in Southern Europe usually in Italy and surrounding areas. Most African dna is West African around the world.
E Jackson Bruh...east African is east African. We're not related to Arabs and Europeans. That's just some antiblack bs I'm tired of hearing. Just stop. We existed as a population far before Europe or Asia was a thought.
SAMAND33 I was not speaking to you. Pipe down, aint tryna read that thesis statement of yours. Reading comprehension is your friend. Consider using it with your mighty doctors brain. Aysha's page is a positive space, see ya way out.
SAMAND33 you are absolutely right. This "23andme is accurate for ancestry" is a myth they only project very recent history and thus is a waste of money for Somalis because most Somalis know back to their great grandfather is somali hence the huge East African percentage . This doesn't make ancestry DNA test accurate though, they use south eastern Bantu as a misnomer for East Africans and their sample size is small.
Western Asian is Middle Eastern!! Western Asian is a modern more scientific term for Middle Eastern. I’m Lebanese, so I’m all Western Asian 😊 Sub-Saharan African refers to all of the areas of Africa that we typically perceive as “Black African”. North African refers to the countries like Libya, Morocco, Egypt, etc., the countries closer to the Mediterranean&Middle East.
Mesfin Gondar Serqe Berhan Hi, I chose my verbiage very particularly. ‘Typically perceived as “Black African”’. Its really hard to put ethnic populations in to definitive homogenized groups. You’re correct in that many sub-saharan Africans don’t perceive themselves as black, hence the quotation marks. Often times, using outdated euro-centric terminologies are the only way to define ethnic groupings bc they’re who invented them. Its why theres been movement away from the term Middle Eastern. And I never said North Africans are white? Also I’m Christian Lebanese and we all identify as Arab..... Even the few who don’t do not identify as Phoenicians or Canaanites.... I’ve never heard of that ever.... I’m not trying to pick a fight, btw! I understand it can be tricky to talk about ethnic terminologies or understand them, so I’m jsut expanding on what I was trying to say.
Lol I was liking this video until u stated misinformation u can see your dna matches and compare them on 23&me you just go to where it says DNA relatives tool
A very interesting result!! I appreciate that you showed us the DNA results of both DNA Ancestry & 23andMe to contrast. I think they both do not have the right DNA data base for the region but it gives some sense for me. Despite huge differences between the two, they both can be used depending on your purpose of DNA testing. If you want the very old root of your ancestry (5-10T), choose DNA ancesstry, you still find similar results with other Ethiopian (those used DNA ancesstry). Do you see our ethnic identity and claimed roots are made up of just religious myths? We are always in one cluster.
I clicked b/c I thought you were Somali. I love Harari people and culture. I stayed in Harar for two weeks years back, the house decoration and design is very unique.
I am from Burundi and have 70% East-african. Some Rwandans score 94%. The Maasai, Ethiopians and Somalis are the specific groups used for the East-african section so your score makes sense. I feel like Gedmatch goes way deeper than both companies.
Abdiqafar Abdullahi No they don't. I wrote that DNA companies look up for people to form samples that will represent a region. In this case the sample, as I mentioned above, is from Maasai, Somalis and Ethiopians. These people do not definitively and utterly define East-Africa. Their countries are in fact made of numerous cultures, tribes, clans, phenotypes, ancestry and genetic origins but are closely related. Doesn't mean they descend from each other, could be but not necessarily.
Because you are female, the tests can only trace your maternal line - your mom, her mom, her mom, and so forth. If you have a brother who will take the test, you'll know the maternal and paternal lineage on your dad's side and you'll gain the knowledge of the paternal line on your mom's side. My ancestors are from England, Croatia, Netherlands, Germany, France, Senegal, Nigeria, Iran, Eastern Africa (listed as broadly Eastern African) and South Asia(which unfortunately didn't break down further) Iberia, Serbia, and Scandinavia. I tested and so did my dad, so those are combined. I'll have to get one of my mom's brothers to test to find out the paternal lineage on my mom's side.
Yes!!! I’m so glad you took the 23 and me dna test! A lot of East Africans took the ancestry dna test and people(non-east African) were running with it saying dumb stuff like “I knew they were mixed” lol
Most east Africans are mixed. 23 and me only tries to match with current ancestry with a definite which means it looks at matching up genetic diffusion going back about 300 years before it tries to match you with other groups.
Cliff Smith because my culture is a beautiful culture that's why and im proud. There are some practices that i don't agree with but i still love my culture, country and people. Where are u from?
aysha we love our east african ppl but the reality is hareri ppl and somali are more related to each other culture religion and looks good luck u humble and nice person
faisal nur no they are not Hareri language is shemetic like amharic Somali language is totally different Just because u have same religion doesn't mean your the same people, they are Ethiopian period.
Both of you are wrong... genetically speaking there's no difference from a close to pure Ethiopian and Somali. The reason why Aysha looks Somali is because like the average Somali she is close to pure East African. Ethiopians of the northern highlands, on the other hand, have on average significant middle eastern ancestry so they will have a much different look from the average Hareri person.
Robel- east Africans have all come to an agreement that 23andme is accurate and not ancestry DNA. But I think the percentages can be somewhat misleading I only take interest in the haplogroups.
I'm also Ethiopian (Amhara), and I've always considered doing one of these tests. I'm pretty sure I'll get 90% or more EA like you did, so I'm more curious about the health report than I am about anything else. Seeing your ancestry laid out on a timeline like that does seem pretty interesting though.
inalienable rights its possible cuz some arabs call all Ethiopians “abeed” which is a curse unfortunately regardless of Ethiopians backgrounds and ethnic groups
@@ra8682ra possibly. There are many cushite subclans followed amhara while most of cushites are followed islam(muslim).waaq time than went to Christian.anyhow we have same lineage genes.somalis .oroma.afat agew.sidamo.saho.iraqw.subclanes be became amhara But most more.
Gambella Represent. I’m Nuer but my parents are from Gambella and my extended family lives there so I like to rep Ethiopia and South Sudan. Cause S.Sudan is the historic Nuer homeland
I did both tests. The results were very similar, but one is more detailed than the other.. But my problems with both tests is that I would really like to know more specifics about my African ancestry in respects to tribes.
African Ancestry helps trace you back to an ethnic group and country. The problem with both 23 n Me and Ancestry is that it was made mostly for Europeans. They didn't bother to look up ethnic groups in Africa as much. So I would recommend this, it's more expensive, but it also caters specifically those of African decent.
I was so happy to get the notification for this, because I’ve been waiting for your results 😃. I’m currently waiting on mine from Ancestry DNA. They had a $59 special for it.
Ethiopia is a country that was formed in the last century and occupies land of certain ethnicities. For example, they occupy the ogaden region that belongs to somalia and there was a war that was fought for the land. There's also the ormos, the largest ethnic group in ethiopia that have been marginalised ever since the country was formed. When you think of ethiopia, it's mainly go to do with the habeshas which are a different ethnic group. Hararis are a semtic speaking group of people and they had a close history with somalis afars etc.
If Hararis have no kinship to Somalis, then explain for me why they fought with Somalis in 1977 war? Many of them even wanted to be apart of the Somali republic. Anyways, who gives a fuck about Hararis, the Oromos are running them over and Harar today is basically apart of Oromia, thanks to the Qeerroo.
Sub-Saharan Africa, which includes Ethiopia, covers many countries in the continent excepting north African countries, but you can easily Google it. Also love to all Africans, as part of the same continent, it's important to be more inclusive, not dividing pride to east, west, north or south. It shouldn't be a surprise to share dna with anyone from any region within your continent, and yet not be surprised to share dna from a region outside of your continent.
I did ancestry and I have wanted to try 23 and me for a while. I am 28% Benin/Togo, 18% Southeastern Bantu, 12% Mali, 10% Nigeria, 9% Scottish, 5% Cameroon/Congo, 4% Sengal, 4% Finland, 4% South Europe, 2% West Europe, 1% Ivory Coast, 1% Iberian peninsula, 1% Great Britain, 1% Native American.....lol that's a lot.
I took the ancestry one and it pretty much came out as I expected to since I’m African American, but seeing how different your results were for this test I really want to try 23 and me just to compare.
Are you a true African American or are you just a black American with distant African ancestors? I will never understand why black Americans insist on calling themselves Africans when they have nothing in common with Africa except that they have black skin and know nothing about that continent and its populations...
@@sparkle408While 4 years too late,that is the stupidest I've ever heard. Africa is a continent and having origins from there doesn't make any group non-African if they still exist and retain cultural elements. Now if you meant a specific African group,you would be somewhat right as Black in the Americas are a mixed African population.
I took a test with myheritage and it came back saying: 95% Somali, 4.3% Middle eastern & 0.07% Chinese and Vietnamese. My mom is btw from Mogadishu (southern Somalia) and my dad from Hargeisa (northern Somalia)
"Broadly" mainly means very old genes that goes many thousands of years in the past so are not related to a location, they are just indigenous everywhere.
Hey Aysha! Great video! I was wondering if you've ever heard of the @Wikitongues project? They're trying to document all the world's languages so maybe you could help them out and share your language at the same time!
Hi Aysha, just wanted to let you know that the population of Harari people has grown tremendously. Ethiopia's population has grown from 50 million to 115 million in about 30 years! Hararis are about 200,000 now. They are still tiny compared to the more prominent tribes of Ethiopia that are mostly in the millions. If you count half Hararis like me I'm sure the number rises to at least 350,000. If the population of Ethiopia keeps on growing by the same rate there will at least be 500,000 Hararis in no time. 😊
I did mine with National Geographic and the results were interesting. Sub-Saharan Africa are all the countries below the Saharan desert...basically all of Africa except t he "Middle East" aka North Africa.
E Jackson I'm from Kenya and my results were: 36% Western African, 21% Eastern Africa, 12% Italy & Southern Europe, 7% Southern India, 6% Nothern India, 5% SouthwestAsia/Persian Gulf, 4% Nothern Africa, 2% Asia Minor and 3% Jewish Diaspora.
I have 23 and me, I'm european and it does show up relative matches, you get updates all the time as new people that are related to you register. But I can understand that not so many people from Ethiopia have tried it. My wife is from Somalia, so I am going to order a test for her, it will be really interesting to see if its as accurate as yours was. Great video.
I guess I'll go with 23 and me, because me being an African American I don't know much about my African heritage. That's because no one really teach us African Americans much about Africa in the U.S. Usually we got to find out for ourselves through the internet or find a class in college that teaches us things about Africa. So, wish me luck.
I have always been super interested in genetics and really want to do this but I don't know if it would be a waste of money for me since as far as I know my family are all from the same part of the UK.
Yes, I thought you were Somali when I clicked on the link. I lived in Saudi Arabia 1 year and Qatar for 6 years. I knew a lot of Ethiopians. However, I had friends that lived near the borders to other countries and had those features. Could that be why? Is your family located near the Somali or Kenyan border? Update @ 8:00 answered my question.
I plan on doing 23 & Me; but I’m not so sure the two reports on you were conflicting. AncestryDNA does broader country assignments (It lumps a bunch of countries into one category) - seems like 23 does more specific assignments (Specifically Ethiopia). I’d be curious to know why the differences in reports and justification for the differences. Also, Somalia was indicated - celebrate it all!
Not a surprise really because harar is known for having a lot of different ethnicity mostly middle eastern personally I'm harari too but my mom side there is hadrami/Syrian my dad side is Yemeni
I do not need to explain myself and show how much proud I am of my ancestry and I do not need a test to prove it I come from Mohammed peace be upon him ancestors and who said that I don't have African blood in me ?
Sofia A. It's funny how irrelevant person who doesn't know a damn thing about your ancestry or your family's nationality assume what ever they want 😀 have a nice day
I think the pure african results can come back confusing sometimes because africa is the homeland of humanity. The first test probably said you were middle eastern because the middle eastern people were probably originally people who came from your group of people in Africa.
thank you for the info. i uploaded my results from Ancestry to My Heritage for free and it showed where in East African ..like mine showed Kenya and Somalia
Did they say what your haplogroup group was? I found out that mine is only found in Ethiopia and Sudan today which is a surprise to me because I am African American
It is interesting about the disparity in your DNA results. I've taken the Ancestry DNA and National Geographic DNA test. My DNA is all over the place because I'm super mixed. I have had my parents take the Ancestry DNA test because my focus is genealogy research and connecting with DNA matches has helped build my family tree. The technology is advancing and these sites are taking those advances to improve the DNA results you already have. My mother is from the Philippines and Ancestry confirmed her East Asian component comes from the Philippines specifically. I'm interested to know if Ancestry pinpointed your region in Africa? My African DNA percentage is all from West Africa, specifically Nigeria and Cameroon (American here). Ancestry also locked down my African-American heritage to North Carolina, where my family is originally from.
The West African percentage is statistical noise like the European percentage as well. Aysha is overwhelmingly East African with some Arabian ancestry :)
MRFUCKNUBIA 123.... I never said she was Arab.... are you blind? read the comment I said she is overwhelmingly East African with some Arabian ancestry... I know the truth hurts but don't get upset that she is genetically more relatiable to Arabs than she is to you lol
There’s an important reason for the difference in results. Humans have a total of 23 pairs of chromosomes, 22 pairs are autosomal and the 23rd pair is the sex chromosomes. Ancestry only tests the 22 autosomal which has more detailed information. 23 & Me tests all 23, hence the name. Also, modern Ethiopians are not a homogeneous group of people with no admixture, so 90% Ethiopian still likely means significant shared dna with Middle East since the Ethiopian blood people has mixed with that region for centuries.
Hi sister. I was listening your video, and I was exciting but you didn't say anything about region, my Niece has done 23andme and it gave her exact place in Ethiopia with 97%. would you mind if you tell us about region . Thank you
Your DNA results are exactly the same for both Ancestry and 23andME... Meaning your DNA in Ancestry DNA is still accurate, just that once 23andme got enough samples of Ethiopian dna, they started categorizing that particular mix of sub-saharan, middle Eastern and North African as Ethiopian...
Hey girl! What abt Djibouti? We Djiboutians are in the Horn of Africa (so basically East Africa!) They forgot to include us in East Africa ?? Love Hararis too nicest people in Ethiopia :)) Great channel btw!! ❤
Hey Aysha! ...23&ME....is $99.00....and they DO MATCH you with your DNA relatives! I received my results 2 weeks ago & have 1029 DNA relatives posted! 😊 I did AfricanAncestry.com and received pretty vague results....but that was 10 years ago..
Yes the Dir clan we lost it to the abysinniaan then the gallas now oromos conquered it but they preserved the religion and inchallah one day we gonna take it back.
@@mursalwarsame5839 did you say the Galla? Zoomalis when will you be able to have respect for other people? Will you guys ever learn how to be respectful? You guys always lived by the fairy tale of The Great Somalia. That will be day dreaming. Harar never been Somali land and it will never be in the future too. Harari people are our brothers and sisters because we have been living together for almost 700 years. Stay away from us With your tribalism mentalities and slaughtering each other day in and out in the streets of Mogadishu
Remember since your are female your DNA is only maternal or your mother’s side, in order to get your full DNA report you need to ask your dad or brother to get one to get your paternal side , there maybe more Somali or something else on your paternal side
East africa has a large geographical spread. There are about ten countries that make up east africa, not just Ethiopia or the horn. Also, what's your maternal haplogroup?
Haile Selassie the great is actually from Harar too! Nah we all have pride, it'll never become a dying breed , you've golden history queen & don't forget that; Allai sellemek 🙏🏾
Ethiopians are not a race of people. They are a region of people. They are mostly mixed-race with different groups of people. They have lots of commonalities and and differences.
Ethiopia is a Political State, but not an ethnic group of people. For example, people from the Afar region are different from people from the Amhara region and people from the Harar region are different from people from Benishangul-Gumuz and all these are different from people in the Oromo or Tigray region. This test told you that you are from Ethiopia, and you need no one to tell you that. What you is a test that can identify to which ethnic group in Ethiopia you belong.
Western Asian *is* arab! Ethiopians are essentially a mixture of Sub Saharan African - basically just Bantu - and Arabs from like Yemen that used to go to the Horn of Africa to trade. So Ancestry.com wasn't necessarily *wrong*. They just defined your Ethiopian heritage *differently*. 23 and Me says = you're Ethiopian. Full stop. While Ancestry.com says = you're Sub Saharan African mixed with Arabs - which is what Ethiopians are a mixture of....
This was a nice video and I like how you listened to comments and did another test when people said ancestry DNA is not accurate for East Africans (true) but where did people get this idea that 23andme is accurate in reflecting the ANCESTRY of East Africans? It's not. I've seen so many East Africans and Somalis saying we are pure blooded and using 23andme as their "evidence" don't let this test fool you into thinking it reflects the genetic ancestral composition of East Africans because it doesn't. It projects very recent admixture, like 300 years max.
Aysha, if i knew you personally i would have dumb moments cause ill probably be talking somali to you and then catch myself cause you look sooooo somali lol
Interesting I have been watching videos recently about harrer and happy finally to meet someone from harrer please post more about your city and your people thanks
Am from the Middle East, and I heard stories that my great great grandmother is actually from Ethiopia 😁 I guess that’s why I have African features although my skin tone is light and no one believes I might have African blood mixed to my middle eastern blood 😁 that would be interesting to know lol 😂 Thanks for ur video,,, I thought u r Sudanese or north Egypt,, u look like like people from AlNoobah ,, and a tiny bit of Somalia ,, I’ve never Ethiopian until u said it ,,, what matters after all that u r pretty 🤩 and we r all the same ,, until now never seen 100% pure race ,,, so we r all mixed ... 🤷♀️
Ethiopians have big eyes, full lips , big foreheads and long noses , some have small eyes but it looks like an almond shape (small or big) and very small noses , slim people, have long necks , they don’t get overweight and some are tall (the majority of east Africa including Ethiopia are like that)
