Is this inscription actually wadaad script ?

[Midas]

I think most of you know about that image on Wikipedia for the waad script entry. My question is this actually an inscription of waad script from the 14th century? And if true why has nobody ever translated the inscription? ..

 

[Yessirski]

Looks similar to this, picture I showed was from Museo Della garesa, or at least that’s what I was told couldn’t find the exact source

 

[Midas]

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Looks similar to this, picture I showed was from Museo Della garesa, or at least that’s what I was told couldn’t find the exact source

If it's real then we'll undoubtedly discover more of these inscriptions across the country over time.

 

[Burqad]

Iys

I think most of you know about that image on Wikipedia for the waad script entry. My question is this actually an inscription of waad script from the 14th century? And if true why has nobody ever translated the inscription? ..View attachment 354186

It’s just Somali written in arabic

 

[Shimbiris]

If it's real then we'll undoubtedly discover more of these inscriptions across the country over time.

It is understandable but lowkey a tragedy how during the Islamic Period they were mainly just spreading writing through paper and alwaxs. Even that source from Siyu on the Swahili coast describing SomalisSheikhs from Koonfur who basically wrote Somali using the Arabic script describes how they did so in book form and manufactured books. If they made stone inscriptions as often as they did books we'd have a massive corpus even despite the civil war...

 

[Midas]

It is understandable but lowkey a tragedy how during the Islamic Period they were mainly just spreading writing through paper and alwaxs. Even that source from Siyu on the Swahili coast describing SomalisSheikhs from Koonfur who basically wrote Somali using the Arabic script describes how they did so in book form and manufactured books. If they made stone inscriptions as often as they did books we'd have a massive corpus even despite the civil war...

Haha yeah if we could only be so lucky. On the other hand considering how dry our climate is were much luckier than the swahili coast,southeast asia, or India. Since the climate is wet and hot in these places no old writings survive.

Considering how hard wadad script is to read and how little acess to even regular arabic manuscripts western researchers(whos numbers probably didnt even reach 20) had . It's to be expected that there is very little knowledge of Somali ajami writings.