Students learning the Quran [Laasqoray, 1880]
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1880 and in color? was this taken on someone's iphone? is time travel technology being hidden from us????
It could be a photo colored later on.
yes, that's what I figured after I thought about it for a moment... at first I was really confused but yes sometimes they add color later
Hamzza
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It's colorized. The photo is indeed from 1882.
Garaad diinle
Interesting. I've seen a similar drawing of southern somalia in 1850s with a similar setting. A lot of somali kids use to learn how to read, write and recite the quran by heart. There is no estimate as to how many somalis that use to do so but it's culturally ingrained into the somali psych and it has survived until this very day. This could mean that the literacy rate of somalis might've been very high back in time and these very same letter they learned for quran were also used for the somali language and the writing was called far wadaad or far guri. Amazing that we have a picture of this mashallah.
Khaem
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Mashallah, Somalia could have a very high literacy rate if this was widespread today as well as gaining a better understanding of IslamInteresting. I've seen a similar drawing of southern somalia in 1850s with a similar setting. A lot of somali kids use to learn how to read, write and recite the quran by heart. There is no estimate as to how many somalis that use to do so but it's culturally ingrained into the somali psych and it has survived until this very day. This could mean that the literacy rate of somalis might've been very high and these very same letter they learned for quran were also used for the somali language. Amazing that we have a picture of this mashallah.
JackieBurkhart
The years don't matter, the life in those years do
My real question is, how come all that time Somalis couldn't create a written language?Interesting. I've seen a similar drawing of southern somalia in 1850s with a similar setting. A lot of somali kids use to learn how to read, write and recite the quran by heart. There is no estimate as to how many somalis that use to do so but it's culturally ingrained into the somali psych and it has survived until this very day. This could mean that the literacy rate of somalis might've been very high back in time and these very same letter they learned for quran were also used for the somali language and the writing was called far wadaad or far guri. Amazing that we have a picture of this mashallah.
They used the Arabic script and then the Latin.
Khaem
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we had one but it just didn't develop much since the later centralised states that emerged in somalia probably used Arabic for running their governmentsThose scripts were created by proto-Somalis and isn't deciphered
JackieBurkhart
The years don't matter, the life in those years do
Interesting, why didn't we develop it further and have similar historical records to say, Egyptians and Greeks?
JackieBurkhart
The years don't matter, the life in those years do
They are our ancestors. They are only different due to how religion drastically changed our customs and culture. We should investigate our past, not shy away.
Khaem
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True, I think I also remember that barre talked about it once as well.
I didn't know that these were made by proto-Somalis, when did the modern somali people emerge?
JackieBurkhart
The years don't matter, the life in those years do
After Islam, most likely.
Khaem
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I'm not sure, it seems that somalis have a oral tradition instead of a literary one.
This meant that all it took was a generation of people dying out in war or famine and failing to pass down history for it to be lost which is a shame.
Our literacy rate could be over 90% if the arabic waddad script wasnt changed to latinInteresting. I've seen a similar drawing of southern somalia in 1850s with a similar setting. A lot of somali kids use to learn how to read, write and recite the quran by heart. There is no estimate as to how many somalis that use to do so but it's culturally ingrained into the somali psych and it has survived until this very day. This could mean that the literacy rate of somalis might've been very high back in time and these very same letter they learned for quran were also used for the somali language and the writing was called far wadaad or far guri. Amazing that we have a picture of this mashallah.
Roughly 3000 years ago I believe
Garaad diinle
Somalis as you know are muslims and therefore use the arabic alphabet that was taught in dugsi. Well that begs the question was there a script before the adaption of the arabic alphabet? There is plenty of evidece that somalis use to have a script of their own that they might of exchanged for the far wadaad. Somalis might've used summado which is essentially is animal markings but also used as a form of writing.
Here is an inscription on a rock and the germen explorer have been told that it's a somali script.
Here is a version of a summado alphabet if you're interested.
More of the Summadu alphabet.
Somalia underwent a cultural regression sometime during antiquity. The Somalis that built most of the city-states today and created the ancient writing script are not the same Somalis that populated it during the middle ages. Explains it's discontinued use and re-emergrnce of a pastoralist lifestyle
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They were the Arab ruling class. Modern day somalis couldn't think of this
Jk im trolling.
