to be Af mahaaw, but to the outside observer, it is difficult to distinguish that language from Rahanweyn dialect (also called Maymay), which is spoken by hundreds of thousands of non-Garre, namely Somali of the Rahanweyn clan cluster. It does happen that Garre who do not share one of these Cushitic languages are obliged to converse with each other in languages from totally different language families, like Swahili or English which they have acquired at school, an institution frequented by only a minority of them, mostly for short periods. Arabic is also spoken as a secondary or trade language. Like other Somali, the Garre are typically tall and slender with long, oval faces and straight noses. Their skin colour varies from jet black to light brown. Af-Garre (Af-mahaaw) is spoken in the districts of Baydhaba, Dhiinsor, Buurhakaba and Qoryooley is one of the heterogeneous dialect of Somalia; in fact, some Garreh Koonfur dialects ( those in Buurhakaba and Qoryooley) have, for instance, preserved the conjugations with prefixes to date, while others (those of Baydhaba) have already given it up. Also, the typical Digil plural morpheme—to has been replaced in some Garre. dialects (especially in those around Baydhaba) by the common southern Somali morpheme—yaal. Although Reer Amiir are not Garre at all, their idioms belong to this dialectal group. Garre genealogy and clan structure The following genealogy has been derived from the work of Professor L.M.Lewis, also taken also from the World Bank's Conflict in Somalia: Drivers and Dynamics from 2005 and the United Kingdom's Home Office publication, Somalia Assessment 2001, and The Total Somali Clan Genealogy (second edition), African Studies Centre Leiden, Netherlands The tribes of Garre have a well-defined patrilineal genealogical structure, Lineage The lineage of Garre Mohamed-Garre bin Yusuf (Gardere) bin Samaale, and subsequently Samaale, traced from Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib The Garre are divided into the Tuff and Quranyow sub-clans. While the Tuffs are further divided into the Ali and Adola groups, the Quranyow are divided into the Asare and Furkesha. The eponymous ancestor of Garre clan: In history, Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya, by Gunther Schlee, Voice and Power, by Hayward and UNDP Paper on Kenya, the Garre are divided into the following clans. Notable people Politicians Hon. Billow Kerrow: Former senator '13-'17 Hon. Adan A. Mohamed : Former Cabinet Secretary for Industrialization and Enterprise Development Hon. Ibrahim Ali Roba