# Somali clan tree: groups outside the clan families

> Groups Abbink places outside the Somali clan families, and the Somali Bantu groups in ACLED 2025: part of the Somali clan tree.

Source page: https://calankii.com/en/society/somali-clan-tree-other-groups/
Last checked: 2026-11-12
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This page is one part of [the Somali clan tree](/en/society/somali-clan-tree/). It gives the groups Abbink places outside the clan families, and the Somali Bantu groups in ACLED's list, in full. See also [minority communities](/en/society/minority-communities/).

## How to read it

Spellings are the source's own. In Abbink's tree, a name with a question mark "could not be confirmed from more than one source", in his words. His sign -/- means "intervening ancestors or nodes in a line are omitted". Here such a line is marked as having ancestors left out ([Abbink, *The Total Somali Clan Genealogy*, 2009, p. 7](https://hdl.handle.net/1887/14007)). Each indent is one level down: clan, sub-clan, lineage, then the diya-paying group.

## Abbink's tree

Abbink lists groups that "do have not a place in the traditional Somali genealogy". Some are occupational groups. Others are coastal, riverine or Bantu-origin communities. Many "are often linked or co-opted to the Somali clans" ([Abbink 2009, pp. 36-38](https://hdl.handle.net/1887/14007)). See [minority communities](/en/society/minority-communities/).

- Sab groups (Baidari)
  - Yibir
    - Mohammed Hanif: Musa (Reer Beli, Reer Malekhal, Yibir Gudud, Galab, Reer Gedideri), Ayub, Gedi, Anjid, Jama
  - Midgan (now Madhiban; the EUAA calls the old name derogatory)
  - Tumaal
  - Gabooye
  - Madjiban
  - Gobaweyn
  - Mosa Dirie
  - Waraabeye
- Benadiri
  - Reer [Hamar](/en/regions/mogadishu/)
    - Dhabar Weyn
    - Shanshiya (Shanshi)
    - [Moorshe](/en/society/ajuuraan/)
    - Qalmashube
    - Bandhahwau
    - Rer Faqi
  - Shangani
    - Amudi
    - Bah Fadal
    - Rer Sheich
    - Abakarow
  - [Ashraf](/en/society/asharaaf/)
    - Hussein
    - Hassan
  - [Merca](/en/regions/lower-shabelle/) clans
    - Shukereere
    - Rer Maanyo
    - Ahmed Nur
    - Ali'iyo Mohammed
    - Duruqbe
    - Gameedle
- Baraawa
  - Bida
  - Hatimi
  - Ashraf
- Bajuun
- Ribe
- Zanj
- [Helai](/en/society/eelay/)
- Reer [Shabelle](/en/economy/farming-and-harvests/)
- Aweer (Boni)
- Jareer ([Gosha](/en/diaspora/somali-bantu-resettlement/))
  - Gabaawiin
  - Rer Dhooboy
  - Shiidle
  - Kaboole
  - Makanne
  - Duubo
  - Jaaji
  - [Mushungulu](/en/society/mushunguli-language/)
  - Eyle (Aylo)
  - Manyasa
  - Miyau
  - Majindo
  - Makua
  - Mlima
  - Pokomo
  - Manyika

Abbink also gives Lewis's outline of the Yibir. Mohammed Hanif (Yibir) has the sons Musa, Ayub, Gedi, Anjid and Jama. Under Musa come Reer Beli, Reer Malekhal, Yibir Gudud, Galab and Reer Gedideri (p. 38).

## ACLED's 2025 list

- Jareer
  - Weyne
    - Gawaweene
    - Shiidle
  - Weyne Makane
  - Weyne Seddex Cumarow

## Download

Every row here is also in [somali-clan-tree.csv](/en/society/somali-clan-tree/), which you can download from the main tree page.

## Read more

- [The Somali clan tree: every clan and sub-clan](/en/society/somali-clan-tree/)
- [Somali clans and lineage: how the system works](/en/society/clans-and-lineage/)

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