Early Roman-script Somali publications met hostile popular reaction and were withdrawn
Evidence
In keeping with this position, they also urged the adoption of the Arabic script as the most appropriate national medium for written Somali, a question on which with its earlier enthusiasm for ‘Osmaniya, and also on the part of some members for a Roman orthography, the League was still profoundly divided. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 410 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Siyad resolved the long-stalled Somali script question by choosing the roman alphabet; The League remained divided over which script should write Somali. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 410
Related
- The League remained divided over which script should write Somali. (similarity 0.91)
- Siyad resolved the long-stalled Somali script question by choosing the roman alphabet (similarity 0.87)
- Siyad resolved the script question that earlier governments had avoided (similarity 0.85)
- The Osmaniya script was later adopted as a nationalist symbol of Somali achievement. (similarity 0.82)
- Somalia still lacked a settled written script for its language in 1957 (similarity 0.82)
- Somalis devised their own scripts, especially Osmaniya, before Roman-script literacy (similarity 0.82)
- Lack of a national Somali script forced continued use of colonial languages (similarity 0.80)
- A 1920 script invention made Somali fully writable for the first time. (similarity 0.79)
- An indigenous Somali script bolstered national consciousness against Arabic (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- The League remained divided over which script should write Somali.
#complicates(0.50) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 410