What aspects of our language would you change or develop

[Daacad90]

What would you change or develop first?Would you broaden the vocabulary and make it able to function in the modern world or would you abandon it all together?

Personally,the first thing I'de change and remove is the unnecessary loan words.

Our language has a wide vocabulary and most of the loan words have a Somali counterpart. Examples are:

1. Albaab=Irid
2.Sharci=Heer
3.saxb= jaal/jaalle
4.akhi= walaal
5.laakin= ha'ahaatee, haseyeeshee
6.waqti/wakhti= ammin, xilli
7.Shacab=Dadwayne
8.Sharab=Cabitaan
9.Lahjad=Oraa

Somalis in djibouti used to have an ancient writing script, I forgot the name of it though. Somalis could adopt that writing script.

 

[Timo Jareer and proud]

Somalis in djibouti used to have an ancient writing script, I forgot the name of it though. Somalis could adopt that writing script.

It's just symbols they put on camels not a script on it's own.

 

[Timo Jareer and proud]

The only thing in Af Somali that needs to be changed is that god awful Latin script. It should be replaced by Wadaad

 

[Daacad90]

It's just symbols they put on camels not a script on it's own.

I was talking about the script though not the symbols they put on camels.

 

[Medulla]

I just want Somali sign language

 

[Thorfin]

What would you change or develop first?Would you broaden the vocabulary and make it able to function in the modern world or would you abandon it all together?

Personally,the first thing I'de change and remove is the unnecessary loan words.

Our language has a wide vocabulary and most of the loan words have a Somali counterpart. Examples are:

1. Albaab=Irid
2.Sharci=Heer
3.saxb= jaal/jaalle
4.akhi= walaal
5.laakin= ha'ahaatee, haseyeeshee
6.waqti/wakhti= ammin, xilli
7.Shacab=Dadwayne
8.Sharab=Cabitaan
9.Lahjad=Oraa

There's never enough. Keep the "unnecessary" loan words and add more loan words. The most important is definitely a script change, though. I get a genuine headache reading Somali - it's not efficient. I'm no expert nor am I even interested in linguistics but surely, for a four-syllable word like "haseyeeshee", 11 letters is too long. This would be fine if it were a one-off - but it's EVERY WORD. I think the Osmanya script was perfect and we should adopt it once again. There would be benefits in all departments.

 

[Pipit]

I agree with @Life qadaare script looks better. Osmanya and Samaroon look like btec versions Ge'ezView attachment 88334

The ge’ez script looks primitive as hell lol I can’t see the resemblance between the two

 

[Timo Jareer and proud]

I was talking about the script though not the symbols they put on camels.

There's no script, only symbols.

 

[Daacad90]

There's no script, only symbols.

I have seen a script used in djibouti I just forgot the name for it, I will inform you inshallah after I find out.

 

[Apollo]

Somalia's political situation makes it impossible to manipulate the language from the top-down. The language is currently developing completely from the bottom-up.

A country like France which is highly centralized can afford to manage its language from the top-down.

 

[Mimir]

I just want Somali sign language

Are you deaf?

 

[Medulla]

Are you deaf?

Nope I just want to learn it to speak with deaf somali's but we don't have one yet.