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Somali clan tree: Rahanweyn, Digil and Tunni
This page lists every Rahanweyn, Digil and Tunni group in Jan Abbink's Total Somali Clan Genealogy (2009) and ACLED's 2025 clan list, in each source's own placement. It is one part of the Somali clan tree.
This page is one part of the Somali clan tree. It gives the Rahanweyn, Digil and Tunni section of each source in full. For history, places and records, see the Rahanweyn page.
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). Each indent is one level down: clan, sub-clan, lineage, then the diya-paying group.
Abbink's tree
Rahanweyn
Rahanweyn groups as Abbink charts them. Abbink divides the Rahanweyn into the Mirifle Siyeed (the eight) and the Mirifle Sagaal (the nine).
- Mirifle Siyeed
- Medovo
- Leik Au Edda
- Barbaro
- Yantar
- Helleda
- Waravane
- Gibile
- Alemo (Mirifle Sagaal)
- Kassanle
- Wen
- Herdo
- Yer
- Ifmogi
- 'Irde
- Wen
- Aysha Omardin
- Kassanle
Digil
Digil groups as Abbink charts them.
- Dabarre
- Dirmedo
- Ieran
- Dubdere
- Irole
- Garre
- Dagine
- Osman
- Dube
- Jiddu
- Hafow
- Gadinale
- Gowsitta
- Gulle
- Seyye
- Farre
- Gogo
- Wa'ayse
- Qorowa'
- Odleh
- Mahammad
- Maddow
- Masulle
- Surow
- Yokor
- Hafow
Tunni
Tunni groups as Abbink charts them.
- Daffarat
- Arweri
- Boqolle
- Reer Mudun
- Geesi
- Weriille
- Mudove
- Gafle
- Tera (Yare)
- Furur
- Ajiuwa
- Hura
- Waaqsheyn
- Mabagolle
- Nijey
- Daqtira
- Min-horaad
- Waransille
- Bedelamma
- Kummurto
- Goigal
- Hamar
- Doile
- Matangalle
- Fadiido
ACLED's 2025 list
- Digil
- Bagadi
- Dabarre
- Duubane
- Darbane
- Garre
- Garre Maqabul
- Garwale
- Geledle
- Heledo
- Jambaluul
- Jiido
- Jiido Safar
- Jilible
- Shanta Caleemo
- Tuni
- Mirifle
- Boqol Hore
- Elay
- Elidhere
- Emid
- Erdo
- Gabaweyn
- Hadame
- Haraaw
- Harin
- Harin Aw
- Yare
- Hubeer
- Jeron
- Jiron
- Leeysan
- Leeysan Banaani
- Leeysan Bari
- Luway
- Maalim Weyne
- Yantar
Download
Every row here is also in somali-clan-tree.csv, which you can download from the main tree page.
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Sources
- Abbink, The Total Somali Clan Genealogy, 2009, p. 7 · hdl.handle.net
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