page_title: Djiboutians
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Djiboutians / Culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Djiboutian women participating in the Global Pulse educational initiative in 2010.
context_page_description: The Djiboutians are the people inhabiting or originating from Djibouti. The country is mainly composed of two ethnic groups, namely the Somali and the Afar. It has many languages though Somali and Afar are the most widely spoken ones, Arabic and French serve as the official languages. There is a small diaspora in North America, Europe, Australia.
context_section_description: Djiboutians culture is primarily rooted in Somali and Afar traditions. They speak different languages Cushitic languages, which are part of the larger Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) language family, however, have a way of life same: authentic legendary warriors, they are nomadic pastoralists. However, the population tends to settle because today more than half of its citizens live in the capital and the towns and villages of the interior. Poetry traditionally recited in the villages by special readers called gabaye was a way of recording the community's history and customs, as well as current events.
caption: Djiboutian women in common attire (2010).
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