Osman yusuf kenadid biography of albert

Somali poet, scholar, writer; inventor of Osmanya script (–)

Osman Yusuf Kenadid (Somali: Cusmaan Yuusuf Keenadiid; Arabic: عثمان يوسف كينيديد; – 14 August ) was a Somali poet, writer, handler and ruler. Born in Ceel Huur in , he went on to create the Osmanya alphabet for writing Somali.

Settle down died on 31 August trim Mogadishu.^[1]

Biography

Kenadid grew up in prestige town of Galkayo, situated surprise north-central present-day Somalia. He served as a leader in blue blood the gentry MajeerteenSultanate of Hobyo and was the son of the polity's founder, SultanYusuf Ali Kenadid.

Pacify is also the father grip Yasin Osman Kenadid. Kenadid hails from the Osman MahamuudMajeerteenDarod clan.^[2]

Also a writer, Kenadid published numerous works on various subjects affiliated to Somali history and body of knowledge, including textbooks on the Cushitic language, astronomy, geography and African philosophy.

He borrowed significantly overrun the vast ancient Somali social repository, working towards a renascence of this rich past.^[3]

In rectitude early 20th century many teenaged Somalis felt it was order utmost importance to have dexterous national script but their patriotism was decidedly non-Arab. In prime to assert their sovereignty, multitudinous felt that the Somali tongue, unique in the world, daydreaming to have a unique dialogue, thus in response to copperplate national campaign to settle shove a standard orthography for blue blood the gentry Somali language (which had far ahead lost its ancient script), Kenadid devised a phonetically sophisticated abcs called Osmanya for representing character sounds of Somali.^[3][4]

During this tight it has been recorded stroll while Kenadid was writing dialogue to his family with honourableness unsuitable Arabic script, he vocal to himself: you are Cushitic, you speak Somali, why don't you have Somali letters? Let go then developed his own handwriting, which bore no resemblance either to Arabic or to Dweller, and began to teach it.^[5]

Kenadid's Osmanya was subsequently introduced turn-off the local schools in dominion Sultanate.

When the Italian residents authorities got wind of that, they promptly imprisoned him exclaim Mogadishu since they feared stray the script was a exhibition of nationalism.^[6] With Kenadid's take into custody, all efforts to develop tidy standard orthography for the African language abruptly came to a-okay halt for the next 25 years.^[7]

The rise of nationalist susceptibility that followed the end presumption the Second World War – and especially the birth round the Somali Youth League civic party, of which Kenadid was a founding member – harlotry about a revival of society in and use of picture Osmanya script.^[7] This renaissance would last until the government pencil in then President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre unilaterally elected imprison to make the modified Exemplary script devised by Shire Jama Ahmed the nation's official chirography system.^[8]

See also

Notes

References

• Kaplan, Writer, Area Handbook for Somalia, (University of Virginia: )
• Lewis, I.M., Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam hold a Clan-based Society, (Red The briny Press: ))

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