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So the mjs are communicating in code yaab
Lord Flacko
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There have been several scripts for AfSoomaali, including variants of the Arabic script and the Latin script we have now
Only a few books. After 20,000 people started learning it was denied in becoming the official script.
Ancient Somali merchants would write in Arabic script to pronounce Somali words, even Swahili was scripted in Arabic through the commerce in Zanzibar.
Only 37.8% of Somalis are literate right now, the script would be useful to learn, but for now it's a novelty.
Wadad script was Arabic and not Somali.
But if only 37% of Somalis are in literate in 2016, what do you think literacy rates were in 1200AD?
Being literate automatically made you an Aristocrat.
Actually There were like 5 Somali scripts this is only one of them but it was the most popular. It almost became our official script but Barre chose Latin because it made things convenient since it was easy to learn and made a gateway to learning other important Latin based strategic languages like English French and Spanish.
Also the technologies from the west being in Latin made it easier to understand and be used by the common people.
Madara x
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So brother can you direct me towards some of these books?
The fact that our own alphabet is virtually unknown to us is scary.
Madara x
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So we adopted the tongue of our colonizers because they controlled the world, and we totally forgot and abandoned our own alphabets?
This kinda stuff make me angry.
The people who directed their life force towards developing this alphabet system are turning in their graves.
Wallahi this Osmaniya script is genius and perfect for Somali. I wrote almost an entire page on paper in it and it just fits so well with Somali all the vowels and sounds are perfect . It's 1 billion times more easier to write in Somali with it than Latin and I believe it will greatly improve literacy rates.
When you compare the two you'll clearly see how awkward ugly and unnatural Somali looks on Latin. Somali was simply not meant for Latin!! All other major Afro Asiatic languages have their own synchronized scripts that respect the nature of their language including Berber. I can't see why we don't use our own script that fits the nature of our language.
Even if it's not Osmani we can make another one like it that fits the nature of the Somali language and respects all the different vowels and sounds
When you compare the two you'll clearly see how awkward ugly and unnatural Somali looks on Latin. Somali was simply not meant for Latin!! All other major Afro Asiatic languages have their own synchronized scripts that respect the nature of their language including Berber. I can't see why we don't use our own script that fits the nature of our language.
Even if it's not Osmani we can make another one like it that fits the nature of the Somali language and respects all the different vowels and sounds
Lord Flacko
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You need to calm down. A script is a script, not the language itself. We adopted Latin because it was determined out of several tests to be a better choice than Kaddare, Borama, FarSoomaali and Wadaad (Arabic script)
You're getting unnessecary emotional
dont worry. Maybe in the future we'll readopt a native script and get rid of this horrendous Latin version
Madara x
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What makes you think I'm excited or emotional?
Somalis love to place blame and never take accountability; this disease started after the war and it's been rampant ever since.
WE KILLED THE SCRIPT!
Colonizers have nothing to do with it. After this script a 50 years later other Qabils started writing their own scripts. But this was the most widely used script.
Right now it sits on the shelf of memory. I'm working on a project to bring it back into the Arts.
Would you buy a clock with these numbers on it?
The English Alphabet has been tweeked for centuries. They added vowels and other letters in the 16th century.
At this point I can only see Puntland using this script for books and poetry and other things associated with the arts.
If anything people will right confidential letters with it.
But, the words "Revival and Implement" can carry a negative backlash.
If millennials especially from the despora introduce it into the Arts, this will get the conversation rolling.
Are you from Puntland, Konfur or Somaliland?
Lord Flacko
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Hobyo, reer abti from Puntland.
Keep your script alive and stop being Politically correct.
My friends told me I'm Qabilist for creating visual content around this script.
Lord Flacko
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I support keeping Somali scripts alive, but i'm skeptical of actually implementing them
And qabiil should be separated from things meant for all Somalis, which is what Isman intended with his script. If only Puntland adopts this script, in some capacity, it will limit it's pansomali appeal as it'll be seen as a PL-thing only from the outside, and will be hijacked as a Puntland only thing on the inside by qabilists/fanatics.
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