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Osman yusuf kenadid biography

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        1. Osman Yusuf Kenadid was a Somali poet, writer, teacher and ruler.
        2. Osman Yusuf Kenadid was a Somali poet, writer, teacher and ruler.
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        4. Osman Yusuf Kenadid: The Creator of the Osmanya Alphabet.

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          Osman Yusuf Kenadid

          Osman Yusuf Kenadid (Somali: Cusmaan Yuusuf Keenadiid, Arabic: عثمان يوسف كينايديض‎) was a Somali poet and ruler.

          Biography

          In the early 1920s, in response to a national campaign to settle on a standard orthography for the Somali language (which had long lost its ancient script[1]), Kenadid, a leader in the MajeerteenSultanate of Hobyo in Somalia and nephew of SultanYusuf Ali Kenadid, devised a phonetically sophisticated alphabet called Osmanya for representing the sounds of Somali.

          Kenadid's Osmanya alphabet was subsequently introduced into the local schools in his Sultanate.

          When the Italian colonial authorities got wind of this, they promptly imprisoned him in Mogadishu since they feared that the script was a manifestation of nationalism.[2] With Kenadid's arrest, all efforts to develop a standard orthography for the Somali language abruptly came to a halt for the next 25 years.[3]

          The rise of nationalist sentiment that followed the end of the S