When will we adopt the wadaad script?

[horumar]

I think it is good if we adopt it. It has a few problems but it is better than the Latin script.

And before the bootyclapping nonsense starts, the Iranians use there's and they hate the Arabs the most.

It is a great way to increase our ties with the Arab world. Besides we can use this for writing on our coat of arms instead of Latin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadaad_writing

It is a beautiful script and we can reconnect with our medieval Somali heritage.

 

[Apollo]

Latin alphabet is simple and international. Why over-complicate things and have unnecessary future costs (special keyboards and so on).

 

[horumar]

Latin alphabet is simple and international. Why over-complicate things and have unnecessary future costs (special keyboards and so on).

Good points. We should carry on teaching English, but this is to maintain the heritage of our language.

It wouldn't take that much, the script only has a few extra symbols, it's already a Unicode so it won't be that expensive.

 

[Apollo]

Good points. We should carry on teaching English, but this is to maintain the heritage of our language.

It wouldn't take that much, the script only has a few extra symbols, it's already a Unicode so it won't be that expensive.

False equivalence. A writing system does not equal the language.

Are you some kind of highly visual person or something? Who cares about the way it is written as long as the language is kept.

 

[Arman]

Why should we use foreign scripts when we have our own? I recommend the Borama script.

 

[Apollo]

Conservatives

 

[SecretAgent]

Turkey did up to 1924 Pakistan and Afghanistan still use it.

 

[fardowsa]

Osmanya or our own made scripts

 

[Human]

Possibly, when Somalia develops even further and we are in perpetual peace but it would be more convenient to keep our current Latin script.

 

[horumar]

False equivalence. A writing system does not equal the language.

Are you some kind of highly visual person or something? Who cares about the way it is written as long as the language is kept.

The Latin script is foreign to us, the gadabuursi script as @Araman recommended has the same issues as the osmanya script. They were created by different clans and are not meant to be for everyone. The wadaad is the oldest form of Somali writing we know of, I think it's best to use that one since it is for all.

@fardowsa ^

 

[Apollo]

Kazakhstan switched over to Team Latin recently:

http://www.newsweek.com/kazakhstan-alphabet-cyrillic-russian-language-583099

 

[horumar]

Kazakhstan switched over to Team Latin recently:

http://www.newsweek.com/kazakhstan-alphabet-cyrillic-russian-language-583099

It depends on different languages

 

[fardowsa]

@fardowsa ^

Well then we can proceed once we drop this qabilest way of thinking
The scripts made by us fit the language, only problem is the time it will take for the entire population to be literate

 

[Apollo]

Why are you guys so Conservative when it comes to Somali culture? Clearly the country needs massive reforms and radicalism, you can't always stick to past just because.

 

[SecretAgent]

Kazakhstan switched over to Team Latin recently:

http://www.newsweek.com/kazakhstan-alphabet-cyrillic-russian-language-583099

Why would they switch their not western.

 

[Arman]

False equivalence. A writing system does not equal the language.

Are you some kind of highly visual person or something? Who cares about the way it is written as long as the language is kept.

Why keep the language if you won't keep the scripts? They belong together. There would be no reason to preserve Somali if you would simply throw out the scripts. They are both part of heritage. Your type of thinking would lead us to throw out our language as well as the script and bow down to globalism for convenience. I don't want Somalia to become a cucked country like Gabon that's lost numerous languages due to colonialism and globalism.

The Latin script is foreign to us, the gadabuursi script as @Araman recommended has the same issues as the osmanya script. They were created by different clans and are not meant to be for everyone. The wadaad is the oldest form of Somali writing we know of, I think it's best to use that one since it is for all.

@fardowsa ^

If we're bringing up problems, Arabic scripts don't have the letter G which is heavily present in our language. It's not that hard to edit our own scripts.

 

[horumar]

Why are you guys so Conservative when it comes to Somali culture? Clearly the country needs massive reforms and radicalism, you can't always stick to past just because.

We are but a small nation, our language could die out.

 

[horumar]

Why keep the language if you won't keep the scripts? They belong together. There would be no reason to preserve Somali if you would simply throw out the scripts. They are both part of heritage. Your type of thinking would lead us to throw out our language as well as the script and bow down to globalism for convenience.



If we're bringing up problems, Arabic scripts don't have the letter G which is heavily present in our language. It's not that hard to edit our own scripts.

If you looked at the wiki page it shows that غ is used, Somalis don't use that, closest to the Arabic GH is Somali Q. Therefore غ is our G

 

[Apollo]

We are but a small nation, our language could die out.

Af-Somali is one of the few African languages heavily supported by a recognized nation-state. That makes it practically impossible for it to die out.

All those other African languages though.. stuff like Fulani has no state backing. Those are at far greater risk, not Somali.

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

Either we stick to the Somali Latin script or adopt an indigenous script (Osmanya etc.). Arabic script is out of the question.