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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script

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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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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.
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.
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script

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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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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

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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 :lol:
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script

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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.....
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script

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KhalidAli, I thought your people were "Afro-Hashimites" though, don't you think Arabic would be better rather than some obscure North African script? :steviej:
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script

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Chinaman wrote:
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.
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.....
fams can read B script :up:

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

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Caesar wrote:
Chinaman wrote:
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.
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.....
my parents can read borama script mashallah

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

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

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

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Chinaman your a smart guy

how do you feel about a new script based on Sumaado?

Image 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!
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Re: Should Somaliland Adopt the Old Berber Script

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Can you give a rough translation on some of the hieroglyphs?
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