Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
anything but the latin script, why do we write in a script that is from Europe? Rather the amxaari script or Arabic or Hebrew than some far away European script, Siad Barre only went for the latin because arabs lacked printers.
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
Not really bro. It was and still is more convenient. Imagine if we had something like the Amharic or the chinese drawing thingy. We would have to invent our on own keyboards. It would be very difficult but having the latin script is easy because you can use the English keyboard to write af somali and that is something we take for granted.ZubeirAwal wrote:anything but the latin script, why do we write in a script that is from Europe? Rather the amxaari script or Arabic or Hebrew than some far away European script, Siad Barre only went for the latin because arabs lacked printers.
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
Arabic was just as easy, us writing in the latin script makes us look like dhabodhilifs for the European western dogma.
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
But writing in Arabic wouldn't make us seem dabadhilif for Arabs? The latin alphabet doesn't belong to particular group of people. A lot of people share it which make us less dabadhilif than if we had accepted Arabic script because that belongs to one particular group of people, Arabs.
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
sometimes I wonder why we diss xabashis, they got their own style of literature and script.... Somali 'latin' script only came to existence in 1970 

Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
if somalis ( even ) had a berber script why can't they remember to write or read it????
somali scripts are all relatively new, nobody knows the ancient one it was forgotten.
somali scripts are all relatively new, nobody knows the ancient one it was forgotten.
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
The latin script has it's origins in Europe, and was only accepted by other non-European nations after colonization, as for Arabic, geographically we are closer to them than Europe, and we wrote in Arabic before we wrote using latin. Writing in Arabic has more benefits than writing in latin.metamorphosis wrote:But writing in Arabic wouldn't make us seem dabadhilif for Arabs? The latin alphabet doesn't belong to particular group of people. A lot of people share it which make us less dabadhilif than if we had accepted Arabic script because that belongs to one particular group of people, Arabs.
Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
The retard is referring to the Tamazight script of the people of the Maqhrib. The Berbers in North African have nothing to do with Cushitic Somalis.....it's just a historical similarity in the name that both places/groups share. It would've made more sense if he suggested the Borama script or something.....Caesar wrote:if somalis ( even ) had a berber script why can't they remember to write or read it????
somali scripts are all relatively new, nobody knows the ancient one it was forgotten.
Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
KhalidAli, I thought your people were "Afro-Hashimites" though, don't you think Arabic would be better rather than some obscure North African script? 

Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
fams can read B scriptChinaman wrote:The retard is referring to the Tamazight script of the people of the Maqhrib. The Berbers in North African have nothing to do with Cushitic Somalis.....it's just a historical similarity in the name that both places/groups share. It would've made more sense if he suggested the Borama script or something.....Caesar wrote:if somalis ( even ) had a berber script why can't they remember to write or read it????
somali scripts are all relatively new, nobody knows the ancient one it was forgotten.

true china what does the tauregs have to do with somali geeljiers who cant even f-king read. what can literacy do to camel herders. they never had a script until what colonial days
we stick to roman script but each clan learns their own far. that's how its should be
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
Caesar wrote:my parents can read borama script mashallahChinaman wrote:The retard is referring to the Tamazight script of the people of the Maqhrib. The Berbers in North African have nothing to do with Cushitic Somalis.....it's just a historical similarity in the name that both places/groups share. It would've made more sense if he suggested the Borama script or something.....Caesar wrote:if somalis ( even ) had a berber script why can't they remember to write or read it????
somali scripts are all relatively new, nobody knows the ancient one it was forgotten.
true china what does the tauregs have to do with somali geeljiers who cant even f-king read. what can literacy do to camel herders. they never had a script until what colonial days
we stick to roman script but each clan learns their own far. that's how its should be



Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
Don't be jealous zubier
as you always are

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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
Every other day I learn something new about you and your family 

Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
Chinaman your a smart guy
how do you feel about a new script based on Sumaado?
Sumaado is basically brandings as we all know but Im trying to learn these ones before i head back to somalia.
maybe not to replace the latin script but something every somali can read from Zaylac to Ras Kambooni
if we can cursive-ise this sumaado script, like the egyptians made a cursive version of their hieroglyphic script and
made the heretic script, we might just have a new alphabet!
how do you feel about a new script based on Sumaado?

maybe not to replace the latin script but something every somali can read from Zaylac to Ras Kambooni
if we can cursive-ise this sumaado script, like the egyptians made a cursive version of their hieroglyphic script and
made the heretic script, we might just have a new alphabet!
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script
Can you give a rough translation on some of the hieroglyphs?
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