Puntland should reinstate Osmania alphabet

[kingofkings]

[Somalina]

Af Somaligii ayaa meel loo waayey.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Gibberish writings i have to say it looks terrible who can possibly come up with something like this.

[kingofkings]

One of the main priorities of the education minister in the future is how to reinstate the alphabet. The alphabet is not just for reading and writing, but part of our collective history, culture, and uniqueness in the world.

[kingofkings]

Xaaji Xunjuf;782009 wrote:

Gibberish writings i have to say it looks terrible who can possibly come up with something like this.

i'm sorry your triangular relative do not have an alphabet of their own.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

kingofkings;782010 wrote:

One of the main priorities of the education minister in the future is how to reinstate the alphabet. The alphabet is not just for reading and writing, but part of our collective history, culture, and uniqueness in the world.

If it is not for reading and writing keep it in the museum cause it looks awful.

[kingofkings]

Somalina;782008 wrote:

Af Somaligii ayaa meel loo waayey.

One of the reason is a lack of ownership. Every country as a unique way of writing and because of that, they work hard to maintain it. We need to go back to our father's alphabet. i know i will. What say you reer Puntland.

[Atirisho]

Looks a lot like the Amharic script.

 

There is a reason why Somalis abandoned the native scripts such as Osmanya, Wadaado, Borama and adopted the Latin script. It was more practical and financially efficient.

[kingofkings]

Xaaji Xunjuf;782013 wrote:

If it is not for reading and writing keep it in the museum cause it looks awful.

I know english is not an easy language, but if you read again, i clearly state that it is more than for reading and writing; meaning, it has more function like culture, history, and connection to one's root.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

As i said before keep it in the museum

[kingofkings]

Atirisho;782015 wrote:

Looks a lot like the Amharic script.

 

There is a reason why Somalis abandoned the native scripts such as Osmanya, Wadaado, Borama and adopted the Latin script. It was more practical and financially efficient.

sweety, many languages have their native alphabet and their english equivalent, so, we can both the osmania writing and its counterpart; roman alphabet.

[kingofkings]

well, i'm not saying Somalia need to adopt the osmania alphabet, but puntland. This is not a national conversation like in the early 70s when some were against it, but a conversation that reer Puntland need to have in order to reinstate our father's alphabet.

[Atirisho]

I am not against it, if anything I am for the reinstatement however I was just stating the reason why they decided against using the Osmaniya script and went with the Latin one instead.

[kingofkings]

well in the 70s they did not know that you can have a roman version of a native language. Remember, we are dealing with people who had only 10 years of shared government, because, there was no government before the colonists. Meaning there was and is some degree differences of local history and traditions. Look at places like china and japan. they have their native alphabet, but there is also a roman version of it as well. Thus, in the next 10 years, one of the priorities of the minister of education should be how to reintegrate the alphabet to the Puntland society.

[Somalina]

Xaaji Xunjuf;782017 wrote:

As i said before keep it in the

museum

That's where we are putting the Kaddare script.