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A Somali alphabet from the 1920s.
Also known as: Far Soomaali, Somali script
The alphabet devised for Somali in the 1920s, used officially for a period before the Latin script was adopted.
Writes the Somali language in an alphabet devised specifically for it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Attributed to Osman Yusuf Kenadid and promoted for decades, until Somalia adopted the Latin script for Somali in 1972 โ one of the clearest cases of an invented script losing an explicit official contest.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
An alphabet of upright letters built from circles, hooks and straight strokes, with separate vowel letters rather than marks.