Why hasn't Puntland adopted the Osmanya script

[Dalalos_ibn_Adali]

Currently PL and pretty much all FMS and even Somalis outside of Somalia are using the Shire Jaamac script, but there was another script that use to be in circulation in the 60s, Osmanya script or Ciismaniya named after the inventor who hails from PL Osman Yusuf Kenadiid, it buggles my mind why PL didn't adopt this script invented by a local, throughout the 60s right up until the early 70s they were campaigning for the nation to adopt this script, thats why it took us so long to get national written language, but PL hasn't adopted this script WHY IS THAT ?

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[Hassan Garguute Buldanana]

Because of the dictatorship of 69-91. We should reclaim our script and abolish the foreign one that was imposed on us.

 

[Dalalos_ibn_Adali]

Because of the dictatorship of 69-91. We should reclaim our script and abolish the foreign one that was imposed on us.

war miyaa waalantahay

 

[Jiron]

That script is fascinating, I wish someone more knowledgeable made an informational video breaking it down. I would love to learn it

 

[Dima&Damo]

What A Beauty

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

The 60's???

It was used since the 1920s and used by Majeerteenia, Sultanate of Hobyo, SYL etc.

 

[reer]

it looks amharic.

 

[Periplus]

Somalia and it’s territories should only ever adopt the Latin or Wadaad scripts.

Anyone promoting any other script is willing to have an illiterate population just to satisfy their desires.

That goes for Osmanya. I don’t mind if it’s used as a novelty but anyone that seriously wants widespread use should reassess their views.

 

[Periplus]

The reason why UNESCO, the PL-dominated SYL and the Kacaan all agreed Osmanya was not a viable script is very simple.

It had an almost zero literacy rate compared to the other scripts.

In the 60s, Somalis primarily knew how to read Arabic due to dugsi and majority of city folk could read Italian or English at a basic level.

Therefore, choosing a Latin or Arabic script meant that the government wouldn’t have to start from scratch as opposed to Osmanya.

This is before I even get into the logistics of changing equipment, technology, keyboards etc and it’s costs.

 

[Periplus]

It was used since the 1920s and used by Majeerteenia, Sultanate of Hobyo, SYL etc

Actually, the SYL official script was the Latin script.

They actually used to publish their newsletter in the Latin script and were also the ones to first promote the Latin script.

After all, they were the ones that initially formed the Somali language script committee that chose that chose the Latin script.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Because of the dictatorship of 69-91. We should reclaim our script and abolish the foreign one that was imposed on us.

Puntland should teach it and use it for public building signs alongside Latin Af-Soomaali.

My father still knows how to write Far Osmaaniya. I wonder how many of our parents generation still remember it.

 

[Zapfox1]

Puntland should teach it and use it for public building signs alongside Latin Af-Soomaali.

My father still knows how to write Far Osmaaniya. I wonder how many of our parents generation still remember it.

It would be much better if we had our own alphabet or script. Back in the 60’s they thought it would be easier to use the Latin one but that just makes us look like we don’t have a literacy culture of our own. And that’s an insult considering the Somali language is one of the most poetic languages I came across

 

[Dima&Damo]

A Typewriter

A Board

Translation Of Modern Somali Writings

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

It would be much better if we had our own alphabet or script. Back in the 60’s they thought it would be easier to use the Latin one but that just makes us look like we don’t have a literacy culture of our own. And that’s an insult considering the Somali language is one of the most poetic languages I came across

I agree, in fact I want everything nativised as much as possible whilst also taking into account the global nature of the world.

I even think Somali leaders need to wear modernised Somali clothing. Somalia right now looks like a nation that was nude and illiterate before Colonisers came.