He was such a hater!

[Executive]

I don't personally see the point of making up new alphabet. If it was old alphabets that were part of Somali culture it would be one thing but making up new ones in the 20th century is peculiar.

Why is it called Osmanya btw?

They are just taking shoots at Said Barre, the Somali writing in Latin existed in the early 1960s, before Siad Barre became the president. There was a national debate about the issue and what would be most practical Ciismaniya or the Somali Latin writting. There were also other scripts.

In 1961 both the Latin and Osmanya scripts were adopted for use in Somalia, but in 1969 there was a coup, with one of its stated aims the resolution of the debate over the country's writing system. The Latin alphabet was finally adopted in 1972 and at the same time Somali was made the sole official language of Somalia. Shire Jama Ahmed (Shire Jaamac Axmed / شيري جامع أحمد‎) is credited with the invention of this spelling system, and his system was chosen from among eighteen competing new orthographies.

[Navy9]

Osmonyo script looks like a chicken foot print, maybe we should send it to china, they good at reading stuff like that.

lol

[Linkinpark]

Mohamed Siad Barre was a hater!

In the early 1920s, in response to a national campaign to settle on a standard orthography for the Somali language (which had long lost its ancient script), Kenadid, a leader in the Majeerteen Sultanate of Hobyo in Somalia and nephew of Sultan Yusuf Ali Kenadid, devised a phonetically sophisticated alphabet called Osmanya for representing the sounds of Somali.
Kenadid's Osmanya alphabet was subsequently introduced into the local schools in his Sultanate. When the Italian colonial authorities got wind of this, they promptly imprisoned him in Mogadishu since they feared that the script was a manifestation of nationalism. With Kenadid's arrest, all efforts to develop a standard orthography for the Somali language abruptly came to a halt for the next 25 years.
The rise of nationalist sentiment that followed the end of the Second World War – and especially the birth of the Somali Youth League political party, of which Kenadid was a founding member – brought about a revival of interest in and use of the Osmanya script. This renaissance would last until the government of then President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre unilaterally elected in 1972 to make the modified Latin script devised by Shire Jama Ahmed the nation's official writing script

R.I.P Osman Yusuf Kenadid!

^^if osmaniya script were exist,..would have been mentioned in the schools INDEED. FAKE @SS.

[idol]

^^if osmaniya script were exist,..would have been mentioned in the schools INDEED. FAKE @SS.

You forgot to say *Pong!

[Shirib]

idol,

do u think the osmaniya srcipt was more practical to use than the latin one?

[Alchemist]

^The founder was called Cismaan

This is him


AUN to both him and MSB

Was he part of shabab?

[abdisamad3]

I don't personally see the point of making up new alphabet. If it was old alphabets that were part of Somali culture it would be one thing but making up new ones in the 20th century is peculiar.

Why is it called Osmanya btw?

They are just taking shoots at Said Barre, the Somali writing in Latin existed in the early 1960s, before Siad Barre became the president. There was a national debate about the issue and what would be most practical Ciismaniya or the Somali Latin writting. There were also other scripts.

In 1961 both the Latin and Osmanya scripts were adopted for use in Somalia, but in 1969 there was a coup, with one of its stated aims the resolution of the debate over the country's writing system. The Latin alphabet was finally adopted in 1972 and at the same time Somali was made the sole official language of Somalia. Shire Jama Ahmed (Shire Jaamac Axmed / شيري جامع أحمد‎) is credited with the invention of this spelling system, and his system was chosen from among eighteen competing new orthographies.

I dont know how you make one person to they..

[abdisamad3]

^The founder was called Cismaan

This is him


AUN to both him and MSB

Was he part of shabab?

[DropkickMurphy]

Ethiopia is having trubles regarding their script. And many want it to change it to latin within the goverment.

Ethiopia ranked second lowest in computer literacy in the 54 countries in Africa.

[idol]

Was he part of shabab?

You're an idiot.

[Coeus]

Ethiopia is having trubles regarding their script. And many want it to change it to latin within the goverment.

Ethiopia ranked second lowest in computer literacy in the 54 countries in Africa.

Oh !@#!

[DANGIRL]

I have a necklace with my name on made up of those letters

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If it's not a medic-alert necklace, than you shouldn't be wearing one especially if it has your name on it.

[DisplacedDiraac]

Forget Osmaniya..

Has anyone seen Somalia's ancient writing system.. I read somewhere *numerous places* that all attempts to decode it has failed..

[Coeus]

I have a necklace with my name on made up of those letters

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If it's not a medic-alert necklace, than you shouldn't be wearing one especially if it has your name on it.

Håll käften

[BlackVelvet]

I wish I had been born in Somalia 70 yrs ago

Then you'd still be a refugee but just 70yrs old. Or dead. Or dying.

This wish doesn't make much sense.