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    transcribe the Somali language. Of these, the Somali Latin alphabet is the most widely used. It has been the official writing script in Somalia since the Supreme...
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    Sheikh Nuur were also trained in the use of this alphabet. Kaddare Osmanya Somali orthography Somali alphabets, pronunciation and language at Omniglot Laitin...
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    The Somali Latin alphabet is an official writing system in the Federal Republic of Somalia and its constituent Federal Member States. It was developed...
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    spoken as a mother tongue by Somalis in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora. Somali is an official language in Somalia and Ethiopia, and a national...
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    U+10480–U+104AF: Kaddare script Somali alphabets Dadweynaha, Somalia Wasaaradda Warfaafinta iyo Hanuuninta (1974). The Writing of the Somali Language: A Great Landmark...
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    of Somalia has always been Somali, although throughout Somalia's history various exoglossic languages have also been used at a national level. Somali is...
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    independent Somali Republic under a civilian government. Siad Barre of the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) seized power in 1969 and established the Somali Democratic...
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    The languages of Djibouti include Afar, Arabic, Somali and French. Somali and Afar are the most widely spoken tongues, and Arabic and French serve as...
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    skyknowledge.com/kaddare.htm 'Kaddare alphabet' in Somali, at Omniglot Tosco, Mauro (University of Turin) (2010). "Somali Writings". Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online...
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    culture of Somalia is an amalgamation of traditions in that were developed independently since the Proto-Somali era. The hypernym of the term Somali from a...
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    of phonetic symbols. Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and...
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    writing, also known as Wadaad's Arabic (Somali: Far Wadaad, lit. 'scholar's handwriting'), is the traditional Somali adaptation of written Arabic as well...
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    Michael Everson's Alphabets of Europe Evolution of alphabets, animation by Prof. Robert Fradkin at the University of Maryland How the Alphabet Was Born from...
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  • authors distinguish between consonantal alphabets, with the term abjad coined for them in 1996, and "true alphabets" with letters for both consonants and...
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    Arabic alphabets are abjads, with the versions used for some languages, such as Sorani, Uyghur, Mandarin, and Serbo-Croatian, being alphabets. It is also...
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    The Somali people (Somali: Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad: سٝوماليداَ‎) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share...
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    section lists alphabets used to transcribe phonetic or phonemic sound; not to be confused with spelling alphabets like the ICAO spelling alphabet. Some of...
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    al Barbar ("Land of the Berbers"). It is also known as the Somali peninsula or, in the Somali language, Geeska Afrika, Jasiiradda Soomaali or Gacandhulka...
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    Kurdish is written using either of two alphabets: the Latin-based Bedirxan or Hawar alphabet, introduced by Celadet Alî Bedirxan in 1932 and popularized...
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    The Greek alphabet was altered by the Etruscans, and subsequently their alphabet was altered by the Romans. Several Latin-script alphabets exist, which...
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  • C (redirect from Alphabet: Letter C)
    C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide...
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    Borama (category Articles containing Somali-language text)
    script, Bildhaan Studies Macalaster College, Vol. 1, pp. 115-116 "Somali alphabets, pronunciation and language". Omniglot. Retrieved 3 January 2015. Mohamoud...
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  • Sheikh Abdurahman Sh. Nur (category Articles containing Somali-language text)
    Sheikh Abdurahman Sheikh Nuur (Somali: Sheekh Cabdiraxmaan Sheekh Nuur, Arabic: شيخ عبد الرحمن شيخ نور) was a Somali Sheikh (religious leader), qādi (judge)...
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    Among alphabets for natural languages the English,[36] Indonesian, and Malay alphabets only use the 26 letters in both cases. Among alphabets for constructed...
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    Q (redirect from Q (alphabet))
    or q, is the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others...
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  • Shire Jama Ahmed (Somali: Shire Jaamac Axmed, Arabic: شيري جامع أحمد; 1936-1999) was a Somali linguist and a scholar. He is notable for creating and developing...
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  • x, is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others...
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  • Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets. North Azerbaijani, the official language of Republic of Azerbaijan, is written in a modified Latin alphabet. This superseded...
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  • 2000 "Soomaaliyeey toosoo", the Somali national anthem from 2000 to 2012 See Help:IPA, Somali Latin alphabet and Somali phonology. Sometimes written qolabaa...
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    Arabi Malayalam all have additional letters in their alphabets. Unlike Greek-derived alphabets, Arabic has no distinct upper and lower case letterforms...
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