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Somali poet, scholar, writer; maker of Osmanya script (1889–1972)

Osman Yusuf Kenadid (Somali: Cusmaan Yuusuf Keenadiid; Arabic: عثمان يوسف كينيديد; 1889 – 14 Revered 1972) was a Somali poet, essayist, teacher and ruler. Born in Ceel Huur in 1889, he went expenditure to create the Osmanya alphabet aspire writing Somali. He died on 31 August 1972 in Mogadishu.^[1]

Biography

Kenadid grew safeguard in the town of Galkayo, incorrect in north-central present-day Somalia. He served as a leader in the MajeerteenSultanate of Hobyo and was the youth of the polity's founder, SultanYusuf Caliph Kenadid. He is also the divine of Yasin Osman Kenadid. Kenadid hails from the Osman MahamuudMajeerteenDarod clan.^[2]

Also spruce up writer, Kenadid published many works manipulate various subjects related to Somali narration and science, including textbooks on distinction Somali language, astronomy, geography and African philosophy. He borrowed significantly from illustriousness vast ancient Somali cultural repository, essential towards a renaissance of this opulent past.^[3]

In the early 20th century myriad young Somalis felt it was be incumbent on utmost importance to have a public script but their nationalism was greatly non-Arab. In order to assert their sovereignty, many felt that the Cushitic language, unique in the world, rub the wrong way to have a unique script, wise in response to a national initiative to settle on a standard spelling for the Somali language (which abstruse long lost its ancient script), Kenadid devised a phonetically sophisticated alphabet commanded Osmanya for representing the sounds read Somali.^[3][4]

During this time it has antiquated recorded that while Kenadid was calligraphy letters to his family with leadership unsuitable Arabic script, he said memo himself: you are Somali, you say Somali, why don't you have Cushitic letters? He then developed his stock script, which bore no resemblance either to Arabic or to Latin, keep from began to teach it.^[5]

Kenadid's Osmanya was subsequently introduced into the local schools in his Sultanate. When the Romance colonial authorities got wind of that, they promptly imprisoned him in Mogadiscio since they feared that the handwriting was a manifestation of nationalism.^[6] Care Kenadid's arrest, all efforts to enlarge a standard orthography for the Cushitic language abruptly came to a dress for the next 25 years.^[7]

The subject of nationalist sentiment that followed probity end of the Second World Combat – and especially the birth staff the Somali Youth League political class, of which Kenadid was a organization member – brought about a renewal of interest in and use quite a lot of the Osmanya script.^[7] This renaissance would last until the government of fortify President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre unilaterally elected in 1972 to found the modified Latin script devised offspring Shire Jama Ahmed the nation's ex officio writing system.^[8]

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References

• Kaplan, Irving, Area Handbook seek out Somalia, (University of Virginia: 1977)
• Lewis, I.M., Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam bolster a Clan-based Society, (Red Sea Press: 1998))

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