Voltage wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:45 pm Hi Xildiid-
People with facts, sources, and bibliographies do not debate based on WAA LA II SHEEGAY.
Consider yourself educated in this matter, because when I was told Shire Jaamac Axmed JUGE wrote our script, I actually researched him.
Lo amd behold, what did I find? Book on Somali poetry written by BB Andrejewski and Muuse Galaal that says they are using the script devised by Shire Jama.
Also found the 1961 Somali language report that recommends Shire Jama's script.
Also found the 1966 UNESCO document saying Somalia should choose Shire Jama.
Also found the 1972 report officially giving credit to Shire Jama.
Also found people like Martin Orwin and the American Prof Mohamed Haji Mukhtar (Digil and Mirifle and the father of the current deputy governor of Mogadishu Subayda Mukhtar) detailing this history.
What do you have?
Absolutely nothing.
It's obvious that you're blinded by "sources" that support your narrative but if you look at the Unesco report and the orthography presented then surely you cannot make the claim that the modern Somali script was created by Shire.
We can also look at scripts created by other Somali scholars before Shire even devised his own script to point out that:
• The long/short vowel system already existed and it was created by Galaal in 1959.
• None of these letters (dh, sh, kh, c, x,) was created by Shire.
Now, if Shire didn't create any of these basic elements that together make up the modern Somali script, is it logical to call him the father of the Somali script?