One of the most important aspects of Somali History

[Voltage]

Why would anyone in his right mind adopt Osmanyia, a bastardized Amharic script, and arabic? They provide no advantages over Latin the foremost linguistic script in the world for the simple reason that English was the lingua franca of the world.

I don't get it wallahi. Today the Habeshi would have been laughing at us for being UNORIGINAL copy cats.

It is pure Geez/Ethiopic

[FAH1223]

Write GAARI in Arabic and let us see if it is better for Somali than Latin.

Well, we'd have to be like Masri and have ج pronoucned as a "G" instead of a "J"

[RebelLion1]

As for those kids yapping about Cusmaaniya and Arabic, Cusmaaniya is a non-factor it is a ridiculous mixture of Arabic and Geez played around with by Keenadiid in 1940's and it was a non-factor to begin with along with Kaddare and Gedabursi scripts.

The real argument was Arabic and Latin, and Latin was chosen to facilitate a faster inception of Somali as the official language.

Actually, the cismaaniya script was the frontrunner, hirsi magaan and a lot of the SYL supported it. It was a unique script. One would Hardly call it a 'non-factor', but this kind of revisionism is expected from your likes.

[Voltage]

Write GAARI in Arabic and let us see if it is better for Somali than Latin.

Well, we'd have to be like Masri and have ج pronoucned as a "G" instead of a "J"

For the Egyptian, "G" is not a different alphabet, it REPLACED "jiim" for them.

For Somalis, we have both "G" and "Jiim" so if we write "G" as "Jiim" what would "Jiim" be?

That is one of the small things that picked Latin over Arabic. Brighter minds than any of us who know this language more than we ever can chose Latin and for a reason. It is not simple one script over another.

[Cinque Mtume]

What my bro RebelLion said and then some.


Haa kugu taagnaato voltage.

[Voltage]

As for those kids yapping about Cusmaaniya and Arabic, Cusmaaniya is a non-factor it is a ridiculous mixture of Arabic and Geez played around with by Keenadiid in 1940's and it was a non-factor to begin with along with Kaddare and Gedabursi scripts.

The real argument was Arabic and Latin, and Latin was chosen to facilitate a faster inception of Somali as the official language.

Actually, the cismaaniya script was the frontrunner, hirsi magaan and a lot of the SYL supported it. It was a unique script. One would Hardly call it a 'non-factor', but this kind of revisionism is expected from your likes.

Was a non-factor. SYL had nothing to do with the script. Hersi Magan is only mentioned by Grant.

There were a lot of contenders, but the two serious of them that confunded the situation were the Latin script that Shire Jaamac Axmed brought and the Arabic script that was brought by the religious establishment.

Actually when it was clear the Latin would be chosen in 1964, the religious establishment came up with this slogan that derailed the argument

LAATIN WAA LAA'DIIN

Which is why there was a stalemate until Siad Barre brought the committee together headed by the Isaaq man Muuse Galaal and that committee after analyzing everything picked Shire Jaamac' script while explaining all the reasons why to the religious establishment.

Cusmaaniya wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

[Twisted_Logic]

As for those kids yapping about Cusmaaniya and Arabic, Cusmaaniya is a non-factor it is a ridiculous mixture of Arabic and Geez played around with by Keenadiid in 1940's and it was a non-factor to begin with along with Kaddare and Gedabursi scripts.

The real argument was Arabic and Latin, and Latin was chosen to facilitate a faster inception of Somali as the official language.

Actually, the cismaaniya script was the frontrunner, hirsi magaan and a lot of the SYL supported it. It was a unique script. One would Hardly call it a 'non-factor', but this kind of revisionism is expected from your likes.

This book provides a good history of the development of the Somali script. Try to check it out:

http://books.google.com/books?id=LR8A4t ... AQtNl_WCUg

[Cinque Mtume]

Cusmaaniya wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

waryaa take it easy...!!

[Twisted_Logic]

As for those kids yapping about Cusmaaniya and Arabic, Cusmaaniya is a non-factor it is a ridiculous mixture of Arabic and Geez played around with by Keenadiid in 1940's and it was a non-factor to begin with along with Kaddare and Gedabursi scripts.

The real argument was Arabic and Latin, and Latin was chosen to facilitate a faster inception of Somali as the official language.

Actually, the cismaaniya script was the frontrunner, hirsi magaan and a lot of the SYL supported it. It was a unique script. One would Hardly call it a 'non-factor', but this kind of revisionism is expected from your likes.

Was a non-factor. SYL had nothing to do with the script. Hersi Magan is only mentioned by Grant.

There were a lot of contenders, but the two serious of them that confunded the situation were the Latin script that Shire Jaamac Axmed brought and the Arabic script that was brought by the religious establishment.

Actually when it was clear the Latin would be chosen in 1964, the religious establishment came up with this slogan that derailed the argument

LAATIN WAA LAA'DIIN

Which is why there was a stalemate until Siad Barre brought the committee together headed by the Isaaq man Muuse Galaal and that committee after analyzing everything picked Shire Jaamac' script while explaining all the reasons why to the religious establishment.


Cusmaaniya wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

Why do you make stupid statements like this? For what-ever it was worth, it facilitated trade and communication between the North-Eastern Somalis and beyond. Belittling a fundamental progressive step in the Somali history simply because of a personal grudge against a particular clan or to get your point across just shows what a fan of falsehood you really are. It sucks that people have to put up with your silly childish propensities

[Voltage]

Why do you make stupid statements like this? For what-ever it was worth, it facilitated trade and communication between the North-Eastern Somalis and beyond. Belittling a fundamental progressive step in the Somali history simply because of a personal grudge against a particular clan or to get your point across just shows what a fan of falsehood you really are. It sucks that people have to put up with your silly childish propensities

You sound as fake as Dolly Parton's tits dude.

[American-Suufi]

somalis will have been better off with the arabic script. they could have read a wide variety of arabic books, literature, sciences and the Holly qur'an and other islamic texts in arabic with ease. what did the latin somali did for them with very limited somali books to read?

[Twisted_Logic]

Why do you make stupid statements like this? For what-ever it was worth, it facilitated trade and communication between the North-Eastern Somalis and beyond. Belittling a fundamental progressive step in the Somali history simply because of a personal grudge against a particular clan or to get your point across just shows what a fan of falsehood you really are. It sucks that people have to put up with your silly childish propensities

You sound as fake as Dolly Parton's tits dude.

Horta, with your feminine atitude and personality, you certainly need breast implants

[Voltage]

Don't try so hard next time.

[Voltage]

somalis will have been better off with the arabic script. they could have read a wide variety of arabic books, literature, sciences and the Holly qur'an and other islamic texts in arabic with ease. what did the latin somali did for them with very limited somali books to read?

[Twisted_Logic]

Don't try so hard next time.

You don't get to tell me what to do or say. I puncture your stupid fabrications and that obviously hurts. Too bad I will keep doing it