The League remained divided over which script should write Somali.
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
Categorization
- XREF: This script controversy (Osmaniya vs Arabic vs Roman) is a recurring thread in Somali intellectual history and connects to later Latin-script adoption decisions. — connects to: The Somali Youth League’s program repudiated clan divisions and promoted a Somali script; Early Roman-script Somali publications met hostile popular reaction and were withdrawn; Lack of a national Somali script forced continued use of colonial languages — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 434
Related
- Early Roman-script Somali publications met hostile popular reaction and were withdrawn (similarity 0.91)
- Lack of a national Somali script forced continued use of colonial languages (similarity 0.87)
- The Somali Youth League’s program repudiated clan divisions and promoted a Somali script (similarity 0.87)
- The Osmaniya script was later adopted as a nationalist symbol of Somali achievement. (similarity 0.86)
- Somalia still lacked a settled written script for its language in 1957 (similarity 0.85)
- An indigenous Somali script bolstered national consciousness against Arabic (similarity 0.84)
- Somalis devised their own scripts, especially Osmaniya, before Roman-script literacy (similarity 0.84)
- Siyad resolved the long-stalled Somali script question by choosing the roman alphabet (similarity 0.84)
- Siyad resolved the script question that earlier governments had avoided (similarity 0.82)
- A 1920 script invention made Somali fully writable for the first time. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Lack of a national Somali script forced continued use of colonial languages
#expands(0.85) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 434