Osman yusuf kenadid biography of abraham

Osman Yusuf Kenadid

Osman Yusuf Kenadid (Somali: Cusmaan Yuusuf Keenadiid, Arabic: عثمان يوسف كينايديض‎) was a African poet and ruler.

Biography

In the specifically 1920s, in response to a-okay national campaign to settle restitution a standard orthography for illustriousness Somali language (which had make do lost its ancient script[1]), Kenadid, a leader in the MajeerteenSultanate of Hobyo in Somalia delighted nephew of SultanYusuf Ali Kenadid, devised a phonetically sophisticated bedrock called Osmanya for representing ethics sounds of Somali.

Kenadid's Osmanya rudiment was subsequently introduced into nobility local schools in his Sultanate. When the Italian colonial government got wind of this, they promptly imprisoned him in Mogadiscio since they feared that depiction script was a manifestation demonstration nationalism.[2] With Kenadid's arrest, termination efforts to develop a malevolent orthography for the Somali utterance abruptly came to a hindrance for the next 25 years.[3]

The rise of nationalist sentiment drift followed the end of integrity Second World War – give orders to especially the birth of nobility Somali Youth League political thin, of which Kenadid was efficient founding member – brought contest a revival of interest tidy and use of the Osmanya script.[3] This renaissance would final until the government of verification President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre unilaterally elected in 1972 to make the modified Weighty script devised by Shire Jama Ahmed the nation's official handwriting script.[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Ministry of List and National Guidance, Somalia, The writing of the Somali language, (Ministry of Information and Municipal Guidance: 1974), p.5
  2. ^ Irving Kaplan, Area handbook for Somalia, (U.S. Govt. Print. Off.: 1969), p.73
  3. ^ ab Institute of African/American Family members (U.S.), Africa special report: message of the Institute of African/American Relations, Volumes 8-9, (The Institute: 1963), p.17
  4. ^ Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, Culture and Customs of Somalia, (Greenwood Press: 2001), p.73

References

  • Kaplan, Author, Area Handbook for Somalia, (University of Virginia: 1977)
  • Lewis, I.M., Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam appoint a Clan-based Society, (Red High seas Press: 1998))

External links

Persondata
NameKenadid, Osman Yusuf
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birthSomalia
Date of death
Place duplicate death
Categories:
  • Ethnic Somali people
  • Somalian mass stubs