EXSTENSIVE report from 1961 of over 20 Somali scripts

[Lord Flacko]

http://dspace-roma3.caspur.it/bitstream/2307/2620/1/Linguistic Report 1961.pdf

Fascinating read, recommend it to all. It includes 11 original Somali scripts, 9 variants of the Arabic script fitted for AfSomali and the Latin script



Excerpts

Requirements :

rest are from page 25 and onwards
1. Somali script devised by Hussein Sheik Ahmed (Kaddareh) in year 1952 , p. -29-

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9 Pros, 8 Cons

2. Somali script devised by Abdulkadir Adde Munyeh in year 1961, p -31-

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4 Pros, 13 Cons

3. Somali script devised by Sheik Abdirahman Kadi of Borama in year 1930, p -33-

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5 Pros, 12 Cons

4. Somali script devised by Isman Yusuf Kenadid (Osmanya) in year 1920, p -37-

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7 Pros, 10 Cons

 

[Lord Flacko]

Cliff notes, final verdict and final script :

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[SultanuuFicaan]

Glad to be of service.
Dspace is a good site, has a lot of archived colonial/post colonial documents on the somali territories.

Kaddare, the best indigenous somali script as seen from the 1961 UN panel. Unique, beautiful script too!

Also a great post which most folks have ignored to reply

http://dspace-roma3.caspur.it/bitstream/2307/720/1/QAAMUUSKA AF-SOOMAALIGA[1].pdf

In case you were wondering, this was written in the 80's, University of Rome, Centre of Somali studies by Annarita Puglielli iyo Cabdalla Cumar Mansuur.

Cumar Mansuur is a student of Musse Galaal (AUN), the legend who contributed so much on Somali language studies, he wrote two books ..

Galal Muse (1968) The terminology and practice of Somali weather lore, astronomy, and astrology
Galal Muuse (1970) Stars, seasons and weather in Somali pastoral traditions

Add these terminologies to your vocabulary list.

 

[Lord Flacko]

The comitee's view on the Arabic script

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Their view on the Latin script :

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And in the end the two scripts they believed to be the best suited for adoption by Somalis, the Latin script by Shirreh Jama, and the (modified) Kaddare script by Hussein Sheikh Ahmed

 

[waraabe]

Is it me or do they all look like amxara language?

 

[Lord Flacko]

Is it me or do they all look like amxara language?

That's a little funny/ironic since this was one of the requirements

 

[GeKo]

Which script looks more like GE'EZ to you?

Ge'ez script; Amharic written in GE'EZ

Cismaanya script;

Kaddare script;

Gadabuursi script;

Cismanya looks the closest to Ge'ez. Kaddare looks like cursive numbers and I'd probably get confused with Gadabuursi since I can see a Q,T,O,U,C,H.. I'd read them the same as english.

 

[Galaeri]

Cismanya looks the closest to Ge'ez. Kaddare looks like cursive numbers and I'd probably get confused with Gadabuursi since I can see a Q,T,O,U,C,H.. I'd read them the same as english.

They are hardly similar. Look at the actual characters of the two scripts, not book excerpts.