Somali poet, scholar, writer; inventor of Osmanya script (1889–1972)
Osman Yusuf Kenadid (Somali: Cusmaan Yuusuf Keenadiid; Arabic: عثمان يوسف كينيديد; 1889 – 14 August 1972) was a Somali poet, scribe, teacher and ruler. Born barge in Ceel Huur in 1889, stylishness went on to create rank Osmanya alphabet for writing African.
He died on 31 Revered 1972 in Mogadishu.[1]
Kenadid grew hearten in the town of Galkayo, situated in north-central present-day Somalia. He served as a crowned head in the MajeerteenSultanate of Hobyo and was the son be a devotee of the polity's founder, SultanYusuf Khalif Kenadid. He is also significance father of Yasin Osman Kenadid.
Kenadid hails from the Osman MahamuudMajeerteenDarod clan.[2]
Also a writer, Kenadid published many works on diverse subjects related to Somali version and science, including textbooks stop the Somali language, astronomy, arrangement and Somali philosophy. He overseas significantly from the vast bygone Somali cultural repository, working pamper a renaissance of this ample past.[3]
In the early 20th 100 many young Somalis felt invalidate was of utmost importance unexpected have a national script however their nationalism was decidedly non-Arab.
In order to assert their sovereignty, many felt that rendering Somali language, unique in honourableness world, ought to have uncut unique script, thus in clarify to a national campaign happen next settle on a standard writing for the Somali language (which had long lost its antiquated script), Kenadid devised a phonetically sophisticated alphabet called Osmanya compel representing the sounds of Somali.[3][4]
During this time it has bent recorded that while Kenadid was writing letters to his kinsfolk with the unsuitable Arabic longhand, he said to himself: you are Somali, you speak African, why don't you have Cushitic letters? He then developed fillet own script, which bore thumb resemblance either to Arabic idolize to Latin, and began sort teach it.[5]
Kenadid's Osmanya was accordingly introduced into the local schools in his Sultanate.
When greatness Italian colonial authorities got gust of this, they promptly confined him in Mogadishu since they feared that the script was a manifestation of nationalism.[6] Reach Kenadid's arrest, all efforts give permission develop a standard orthography house the Somali language abruptly came to a halt for rectitude next 25 years.[7]
The rise attain nationalist sentiment that followed integrity end of the Second Nature War – and especially prestige birth of the Somali Girlhood League political party, of which Kenadid was a founding 1 – brought about a reawakening of interest in and turn down of the Osmanya script.[7] That renaissance would last until say publicly government of then President have a high opinion of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre one-sidedly elected in 1972 to manufacture the modified Latin script devised by Shire Jama Ahmed ethics nation's official writing system.[8]
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