Why aren't we using this alphabet?

[waayeel101]

these can't be alphabets.

[James Dahl]

The problem is it's all theoretical, there are pyramid-like mountains near Hargeisa but no proof they are actually pyramids. The same way that people have said there are hieroglyphics in north Somalia but no photos or anything.

[DonCorleone]

The oldest Somali script is the Cisse SUMADO , Basque in our historicalness...if that is even a word.

Like Abdi Johnson said, proud to be Djibouti
Like James Dahl said, everything goes back to Egypt, perhaps we should too.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

The oldest Somali script is the Cisse SUMADO , Basque in our historicalness...if that is even a word.

Like Abdi Johnson said, proud to be Djibouti
Like James Dahl said, everything goes back to Egypt, perhaps we should too.

Don where were those symbols found? So far I haven't seen the anywhere other than the Internet. Surely, there should be walls, caves etc with these writings? Otherwise, how will we know if these were really used by ancients or just made up by ssomeone?

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

They don't need to be different letters, and christian crosses the cross bar is higher up, it looks more like a plus sign

ii looks more like an ankh symbol than a christian cross, but again that's just a coincidence

I considered adding more letters to make the vowels, but I realized they would be kind of superfluous, try and say yalaxow and ialaxou, do they sound different? Whether it is an i or a y people can figure out from the context, like in Arabic.

Somalis had nothing to do with the South Arabians or the Axumites.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Sorry, in answer to the question, it was designed by some abgaal dude.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

The originators of the relatively advanced civilization which the world credits the greeks with was indo european right? In the previous comments you had asserted that the phoenicians had bought civilization to the greeks.
Im sure the civilizations the indo europeans destroyed were pretty basic and behind perhaps went no further than farming.

The north Indians and Iranians origin is Indo europeans from the caucuses right? as are the Europeans. So its like one big family. Where do the semtic fit in all this?

No the Indo Europeans were not civilized at all, they were rampaging barbarians riding war chariots, which they invented. Semitic people were the ones who invented agriculture and writing (Sumerians first with Cuniform, then Egyptians with Hieroglyphics). The previous civilization in Greece was from the middle east, probably modern Syria, and were relatives of the Phoenicians, as were the Minoans, but their civilization was wiped out by the Indo-Europeans. You can see this in the remnants of E1b1b and J1 lineages in Europe, they were the ones who introduced agriculture to Europe.

The only thing Indo-Europeans have really excelled at is killing people, a trait they continue to this day

New studies show europeans are made up of 3 separate populations. The first are the neolithic and indigenous people who brought farming into europe from the near east (Your ancestors ). The second are the marauding indo-europeans who invaded and either supplanted or assimilated the first group. And the third are some mysterious group from the heartlands of central asia and North-eastern eurasia.

The funny thing is the first indigenous neolithic group (most likely E1b1b, I, J2 and T haplogroups) had light skin and dark hair/eyes and the indo-euros had dark skin and pale eyes.

[GalliumerianSlayer]

The most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Its called Kaddare.

Because our dictator didn't like Hawiye people.

[MayDay777]

loooooooool so it was a Hawiye script? freaking zoomalis making everything about clans. no wonder you are the lowest of the low upto now

[GalliumerianSlayer]

Perfectly adaptable.
Kaddare script doesn't include numbers however.

Long vowels are written twice.

Linguistic report;http://dspace-roma3.caspur.it/bitstream ... 201961.pdf

Pretty much everyone recommended the Kaddare script, it fits with our language. It's the best indigenous script.
I'll be learning this and using this script.

[Futurist]

There are only 4 peoples who independently invented writing. The ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese and Olmecs in Mexico. Everyone else just copied them

The ancient Somali script is called Sumado. Its on rock art in the Somali peninsula and we still use it to mark Camels today.

[GalliumerianSlayer]

It's making me nervous just looking at it. Reminds me of Georgian script. This is how they write in Georgia

Zoomalis are simply incompetent and lazy to learn a new script.
Tell me what african nation uses their native script in africa other than the BERBERS, Eritrean, Ethiopians and Coptics?

[GalliumerianSlayer]

There are only 4 peoples who independently invented writing. The ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese and Olmecs in Mexico. Everyone else just copied them

The ancient Somali script is called Sumado. Its on rock art in the Somali peninsula and we still use it to mark Camels today.