Osmaanya Script. Cringe AF.

[oldschoolsomali]

I keep seeing this osmaanya script on the online somalisphere. It's so damn cringe. Don't you think it's embarassing that you guys keep pushing this ridiculous script that was only invented in the 1920's. It makes Somalis look really insecure. I feel like Xabeshis are laughing at us. Their scripts were created over a thousand years ago, and now you have 2023 faraaxs trying to spread this nonsense script. It makes us look self-hating.

 

[supremacyOscar]

This script is for people from Punt and SL

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

So what?

"Feel like Xabashis are laughing at us"-, if anything we should be laughing at them for peeing in the streets and eating raw meat like cave people.

What's insecure about using a script, even if it was created in the early 1900s? Some of us have grandfathers and great-grandfathers that used that script and it's part of our history.

If you want, keep using the Latin script, Arabic script or Sanskrit. Go do you and let us, do US>

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

This script is for people from Punt and SL

The script is by and for Somalis, no matter where they are from. It was also used by SYL, but later the Kacaan regime decided that Latin would be better.

 

[Jiron]

i would love to learn it, i think it looks unique and fun

 

[Juke]

 

[Mr steal your naag 2]

I keep seeing this osmaanya script on the online somalisphere. It's so damn cringe. Don't you think it's embarassing that you guys keep pushing this ridiculous script that was only invented in the 1920's. It makes Somalis look really insecure. I feel like Xabeshis are laughing at us. Their scripts were created over a thousand years ago, and now you have 2023 faraaxs trying to spread this nonsense script. It makes us look self-hating.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Some of you Diasporan Somalis suffer from serious self-hate walahi, always comparing yourselves to others for no good reason. I even have to try to convince some of them on here to wear their own clothes to their weddings.

People create languages and scripts all the time, it's just that many of these languages and scripts fail. For example, there was an attempt to make a new European language, but it wasn't picked up.

Esperanto (/ˌɛspəˈrɑːntoʊ/, /-æntoʊ/)[7][8] is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication, or "the international language"

Here is a list of scripts invented in the 1900s, but I bet you won't call them "cringe". And it certainly will never be described as "cringe" by people from these countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_creators_of_writing_systems

 

[Haragwaafi]

The script is by and for Somalis, no matter where they are from. It was also used by SYL, but later the Kacaan regime decided that Latin would be better.

The Somali language committee responsible for bringing a script recommended Latin to be used in the 60s to the parliament but the locals were against it as there was this popular common phrase "Latiin waa Laa diin" pushed by the opponents of the Latin script, so the debate was left to junta regime to decide.

Shortly following independence and the 1960 union, the Somali Language Committee was created, headed by Somali scholar Musa Haji Ismail Galal, the first Somali professionally trained in modern phonetics. The committee recommended the use of a modified Latin script in 1962. The civilian administration at the time was unwilling to make a decision due to the controversial nature of the debate. The Latin script was seen to have been brought to the territory by colonial powers; proponents of other scripts used the phrase "Latin waa laa diin" (Latin is irreligion).

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

The Ol Chiki script is used to write Santali (or Santhali), an Austro-Asiatic language spoken by around 7.6 million people mostly in Central and Eastern India.

Invented in 1925.

@oldschoolsomali


There are many other examples of this.

You're upset about a script from the early 1900s, but if need be, let Somalis invent a new script in 2023 or beyond. Whatever suits the needs of Somalis and brings back a sense of national pride.

 

[xiin-finiin.]

I keep seeing this osmaanya script on the online somalisphere. It's so damn cringe. Don't you think it's embarassing that you guys keep pushing this ridiculous script that was only invented in the 1920's. It makes Somalis look really insecure. I feel like Xabeshis are laughing at us. Their scripts were created over a thousand years ago, and now you have 2023 faraaxs trying to spread this nonsense script. It makes us look self-hating.

The reason I hate it is cuz, ngl, it looks like a ripoff of the xabesha script.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

The reason I hate it is cuz, ngl, it looks like a ripoff of the xabesha script.

Ge'ez looks like dancing people.

This is Osmanya

 

[repo]

It's not for you, it's for Majeerteen and it's for Puntland. 𐒆𐒗𐒖𐒐 𐒓𐒘𐒂𐒔 𐒘𐒂.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

It's not for you, it's for Majeerteen and it's for Puntland. 𐒆𐒗𐒖𐒐 𐒓𐒘𐒂𐒔 𐒘𐒂.

All Somalis should use it if they want, and the creator was from Hobyo Sultanate, which was home to many clans. He also found SYL and was trying to create a Somali cultural rennaisance.


But yes, if some people on here are offended by it, we are free to be offended at them insulting a script that is part of our heritage. Even if it is 100 years old. It's still our culture.
Even more insulting, is that it was created to promote Somali Patriotism and the creator (Osman Yusuf Keenadiid) was arrested by the Italians when they found out about it.

He also founded SYL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osman_Yusuf_Kenadid

In the early 20th century many young Somalis felt it was of utmost importance to have a national script but their nationalism was decidedly non-Arab. In order to assert their sovereignty, many felt that the Somali language, unique in the world, ought to have a unique script, thus in response to a national campaign to settle on a standard orthography for the Somali language (which had long lost its ancient script), Kenadid devised a phonetically sophisticated alphabet called Osmanya for representing the sounds of Somali.[3][4]

During this time it has been recorded that while Kenadid was writing letters to his family with the unsuitable Arabic script, he said to himself: you are Somali, you speak Somali, why don't you have Somali letters? He then developed his own script, which bore no resemblance either to Arabic or to Latin, and began to teach it.[5]

Kenadid's Osmanya was subsequently introduced into the local schools in his Sultanate. When the Italian colonial authorities got wind of this, they promptly imprisoned him in Mogadishu since they feared that the script was a manifestation of nationalism.[6] With Kenadid's arrest, all efforts to develop a standard orthography for the Somali language abruptly came to a halt for the next 25 years.[7]

The rise of nationalist sentiment that followed the end of the Second World War – and especially the birth of the Somali Youth League political party, of which Kenadid was a founding member – brought about a revival of interest in and use of the Osmanya script.[7] This renaissance would last until the government of then President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre unilaterally elected in 1972 to make the modified Latin script devised by Shire Jama Ahmed the nation's official writing system.[8]

 

[repo]

All Somalis should use it if they want, and the creator was from Hobyo Sultanate, which was home to many clans.


But yes, if some people on here are offended by it, we are free to be offended at them insulting a script that is part of our heritage. Even if it is 100 years old. It's still our culture.
Even more insulting, is that it was created to promote Somali Patriotism and the creator (Osman Yusuf Keenadiid) was arrested by the Italians when they found out about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osman_Yusuf_Kenadid

Osmanya does not need to be defended. It can be written in a modern browser for a reason. We must continue to preserve our script which can be written in a modern browser. They are insecure of Ethiopians and jealous of ethnic Puntites. I am happy to see that.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Osmanya does not need to be defended. It can be written in a modern browser for a reason. We must continue to preserve our script which can be written in a modern browser. They are insecure of Ethiopians and jealous of ethnic Puntites. I am happy to see that.

You'd think someone forced them to use it. SMH

I'm proud of the Somalis who are using it in the 'Somalisphere'. Next we need them to type in this script and then maybe 100% of our ethnic ceeb wouldn't be seen by everyone.

 

[Dualke]

Osmanya does not need to be defended. It can be written in a modern browser for a reason. We must continue to preserve our script which can be written in a modern browser. They are insecure of Ethiopians and jealous of ethnic Puntites. I am happy to see that.

Qabilists are really retarded enough to segregate basic forms of communication through clans

 

[Lumo]

Osmanya looks ok. Nothing cringe with it. However I do think Kaddare looks better. It reminds me of ancient hieroglyphs in egypt.

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Osmanya looks ok. Nothing cringe with it. However I do think Kaddare looks better. It reminds me of ancient hieroglyphs in egypt.



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Hide it from him, he may die from cringe, after discovering that it was created in the 1950s

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

An old Osmanya Script typewriter