i cant find the post about puntland adding two new letters to osmanya? someone help

[monet]

I've searched up osmanya but to no avail where is it.

 

[Yusuf Abdi Ali Rashid]

I've searched up osmanya but to no avail where is it.

Osmanya is dead, Embrace Latin nayaa

 

[monet]

Osmanya is dead, Embrace Latin nayaa

if osmanya has many users i will be one of them if osmanya has little users i am one of them if osmanya has zero users that means im dead

 

[Periplus]

Osmanya is dead, Embrace Latin nayaa

Wadaad script is better than both tbh.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

if osmanya has many users i will be one of them if osmanya has little users i am one of them if osmanya has zero users that means im dead

You can change your username to Osmanya Script. Use this keyboard:

Somali Keyboard - Osmanya Alphabet • Lexilogos

Online Somali keyboard to type a text with the Osmanya alphabet

www.lexilogos.com

 

[monet]

You can change your username to Osmanya Script. Use this keyboard:

Somali Keyboard - Osmanya Alphabet • Lexilogos

Online Somali keyboard to type a text with the Osmanya alphabet

www.lexilogos.com

ooo i didnt know about that

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

ooo i didnt know about that

Go into "Account Details" and then you can change your username. Alternatively, you can probably ask @Admin to do it for you.

 

[3LetterzMM]

A lot of older folks in puntland know how to use it I remember some older model houses would have osmanya writing on the walls.

 

[Awad]

Osmanya was created by a single person in the 19th century and went out of fashion very early on, it doesn't have the cultural or historical backing to be considered a real writing script. It's essentially the equivalent as tengwar.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Osmanya was created by a single person in the 19th century and went out of fashion very early on, it doesn't have the cultural or historical backing to be considered a real writing script. It's essentially the equivalent as tengwar.

It didn't go "out of fashion". It was used during the SYL years and only went out of use because the Kacaan Regime favoured the Latin Script.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

A lot of older folks in puntland know how to use it I remember some older model houses would have osmanya writing on the walls.

My elder still knows how to write it

 

[Velœcity]

My elder still knows how to write it

Mashallah, Are they from Mudug perhaps?

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Mashallah, Are they from Mudug perhaps?

DDSI region!

 

[Prince of HS]

I really wish Somalis had their own national script like Ethiopian ethnic groups do. instead we use boring old Latin. I would have spent my spare time studying how to read and write it. Kacaan wanted to use Latin script over these scripts unfortunately

 

[Dima&Damo]

I have seen alot of girls use that script in necklaces

 

[GuanYu]

I really wish Somalis had their own national script like Ethiopian ethnic groups do. instead we use boring old Latin. I would have spent my spare time studying how to read and write it. Kacaan wanted to use Latin script over these scripts unfortunately

That is because Latin typewriters were readily available
Arabic script was actually considered too, but there weren't enough type writers in Arabic then. For administration to be carried out so.....
Bureaucracy wins again

 

[Periplus]

It didn't go "out of fashion". It was used during the SYL years and only went out of use because the Kacaan Regime favoured the Latin Script.

This is actually incorrect. The SYL newspaper in the 1950s used the Latin script and in the 1960s authorised a joint commission with UNESCO into picking the next Somali script.

The agreed upon script was Latin but it didn’t have enough support to pass parliament due to stiff religious criticism about not using the Arabic script.

Osmanya was never considered a serious contender in the race for Somalias next script.

I can provide sources for all this info.

 

[hinters]

Wadaad script is better than both tbh.

Wadaad script sucks.

 

[GemState]

Somali in Latin sounds retarded, I feel like an actual 4y/o writing paragraphs of it.

Should have used an Arabic-script

 

[Periplus]

Wadaad script sucks.

Doesn’t matter if it does, most Somalis can read Arabic due to reading the Quran.

Whereas Latin literacy is at 50% and Osmanya is basically at 0%.

It’s about what is easier for majority of the population. Also Osmanya will be expensive to implement.