Why don't Somalis use the osmanya?

[𐒌𐒓𐒐𐒓𐒗𐒕𐒒_21]

A tribe in India called the Santali didn't have no written script as they were using other scripts to write their language but didn't have the letters and sounds for their language but that changed in 1925 when Raghunath Murmu created the ol chiki alphabet for the Santali people. Today books are published in the script,movies,online and i do believe the same can happen with Soomaalida if were to return back to using Osmanya.

 

[hinters]

Because at the time of Somalia's independence all the typewriters and presses were in Latin because of our colonizers. It would have costed lots of money to create new infrastructure for Osmanya so they just used what they already had and did with Latin.

TLDR: It was cheaper to use Latin.

 

[𐒌𐒓𐒐𐒓𐒗𐒕𐒒_21]

Because at the time of Somalia's independence all the typewriters and presses were in Latin because of our colonizers. It would have costed lots of money to create new infrastructure for Osmanya so they just used what they already had and did with Latin.

TLDR: It was cheaper to use Latin.

I already know that but why do Somalis want to continue using foreign script like Latin or Arabic instead of Cismaanya. You have ethnic groups whom are proud of their scripts even the ugliest of scripts like Xabaashi.

 

[reer]

it looks ge'ez. i rather use latin.

 

[Sajid]

I already know that but why do Somalis want to continue using foreign script like Latin or Arabic instead of Cismaanya. You have ethnic groups whom are proud of their scripts even the ugliest of scripts like Xabaashi.

It is impossible.

Somali people used Arabic alphabet for centuries then started using latin and this usmanly came at the worst time to invent new alphabet.

Btw it's so ugly

 

[𐒌𐒓𐒐𐒓𐒗𐒕𐒒_21]

It is impossible.

Somali people used Arabic alphabet for centuries then started using latin and this usmanly came at the worst time to invent new alphabet.

Btw it's so ugly

Arabic is ugly in my opinion

 

[OffTheDome]

I already know that but why do Somalis want to continue using foreign script like Latin or Arabic instead of Cismaanya. You have ethnic groups whom are proud of their scripts even the ugliest of scripts like Xabaashi.

Arabic is not foreign. It’s the first language for all Muslims and it’s definitely superior to Somali

 

[Based]

Arabic is ugly in my opinion

Like “osmanya” is better. Arabic script is the most beautiful in the world

 

[Hamzza]

A tribe in India called the Santali didn't have no written script as they were using other scripts to write their language but didn't have the letters and sounds for their language but that changed in 1925 when Raghunath Murmu created the ol chiki alphabet for the Santali people. Today books are published in the script,movies,online and i do believe the same can happen with Soomaalida if were to return back to using Osmanya.

As you may know, Somali society is divided into Qabiil lines; every clan is suspicious of the other.
The Osmanya from its beginnings was seen as a Majerten script and Somalis were always reluctant to accept Majerten supremacy.

For example Ricci in 1951 said:

… la scrittura osmania conservò a lungo il carattere di un fatto strettamente etnico, gentilizio anzi, legato all’ambiente in cui si formò.

"… the Osmania script retained for a long time the characteristics of a strictly ethnic – even
clanic – phenomenon, and it was closely linked to the milieu in which it developed."

Cerulli confirms the clanic nature of the script in the final remarks of his 1932 short article, when he writes:

È da augurare, per molte ragioni, che questo tentativo dei Migiurtini di dare un alfabeto al
Somalo riesca (Cerulli 1959 [1932]: 179)

"It is to be wished, for several reasons, that this Majarteen attempt at providing an alphabet for
the Somali language be successful."

 

[convincation]

Osmanya isn’t our only native script. There’s also Kaddare and Borama scripts. Why should one be prioritised over the other 2?

 

[hinters]

it’s definitely superior to Somali

no language is superior to any other.

 

[hinters]

I already know that but why do Somalis want to continue using foreign script like Latin or Arabic instead of Cismaanya. You have ethnic groups whom are proud of their scripts even the ugliest of scripts like Xabaashi.

Because it's expensive and we have bigger priorities like stopping the famine, drought, and war.

 

[𐒌𐒓𐒐𐒓𐒗𐒕𐒒_21]

Osmanya isn’t our only native script. There’s also Kaddare and Borama scripts. Why should one be prioritised over the other 2?

Those scripts are influenced by osmanya and osmanya is older than both those scripts.

 

[OffTheDome]

no language is superior to any other.

Are you saying the language of the Quran, the language of the Messenger ﷺ and his Hadiths are not superior to all the other languages? Stop playing dude

 

[hinters]

Are you saying the language of the Quran, the language of the Messenger ﷺ and his Hadiths are not superior to all the other languages? Stop playing dude

The Quran being revealed in Arabic doesn't make Arabic superior. There are no qualities that Arabic has that makes it any better than any other language, the idea of a language being better than another is ridiculous.

 

[OffTheDome]

The Quran being revealed in Arabic doesn't make Arabic superior. There are no qualities that Arabic has that makes it any better than any other language, the idea of a language being better than another is ridiculous.

Yeah it does actually. We pray in Arabic, we read Quran and Hadith in Arabic, you need to learn Arabic to understand the many aspects of the religion. That alone makes it superior. Why are you so Anti-Arabic? It’s a language for all Muslims.


Umar bin al-Khattab May Allah be pleased with him said, "Learn the Arabic language because it is from your religion.

 

[hinters]

Yeah it does actually. We pray in Arabic, we read Quran and Hadith in Arabic, you need to learn Arabic to understand the many aspects of the religion. That alone makes it superior. Why are you so Anti-Arabic? It’s a language for all Muslims.


Umar bin al-Khattab May Allah be pleased with him said, "Learn the Arabic language because it is from your religion.

I am not Anti-Arabic. Muhammad SAW was arab. I am speaking from a linguistic POV not an Islamic one.

 

[induction]

A tribe in India called the Santali didn't have no written script as they were using other scripts to write their language but didn't have the letters and sounds for their language but that changed in 1925 when Raghunath Murmu created the ol chiki alphabet for the Santali people. Today books are published in the script,movies,online and i do believe the same can happen with Soomaalida if were to return back to using Osmanya.

because it's a stupid idea. it's a waste of resources. Somalia is weak, poor, and not developed at all. Why on earth would you waste time adopting a script that no one uses internationally? just for the sake of having it? maybe if Somalia was powerful i'd understand, but in our current situation useless ideas like this shouldn't even be on our minds.

 

[𐒌𐒓𐒐𐒓𐒗𐒕𐒒_21]

because it's a stupid idea. it's a waste of resources. Somalia is weak, poor, and not developed at all. Why on earth would you waste time adopting a script that no one uses internationally? just for the sake of having it? maybe if Somalia was powerful i'd understand, but in our current situation useless ideas like this shouldn't even be on our minds.

Why is it stupid for preserving osmanya and wanting go be proud to wite our language. If this was Arabic you wouldn't say anything.

 

[Based]

Why is it stupid for preserving osmanya and wanting go be proud to wite our language. If this was Arabic you wouldn't say anything.

Somalian ethno nationalists try not to be obsessed with arabs and their language challenge! (impossible)