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    Wadaad's writing, also known as Wadaad's Arabic (Somali: Far Wadaad, lit. 'Scholar's Handwriting'), is the traditional Somali adaptation of written Arabic...
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    ad hoc transliteration of Somali into Arabic script referred to as Wadaad's writing. It contains 32 letters; 10 of them are vowels, the remainder are consonants...
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    specific names for individual languages, such as Wolofal, Sorabe, and Wadaad's writing. Despite the existence of a widely known and well-established script...
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    been used for centuries for writing the Somali language include the long-established Arabic script and Wadaad's writing. According to Bogumił Andrzejewski...
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    been used for centuries for writing Somali include the long-established Arabic script and Wadaad's writing. Indigenous writing systems developed in the twentieth...
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    Osmanya alphabet (category Writing systems of Africa)
    Studies, University of London, Vol. 21 pp 134–156. Osmanya, Borama, Wadaad's writing and the Somali language Afkeenna iyo fartiisa - a book in Osmanya Somali...
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    been used for centuries for writing Somali include the long-established Arabic script and Wadaad's writing. Indigenous writing systems developed in the twentieth...
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  • Ajami script (category Writing systems of Africa)
    example of the letter values is in the following table. Wolofal script Wadaad's writing Fula alphabets#Arabic (Ajami) alphabet Swahili Ajami Mandinka language#Orthography...
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  • nomenclature for the Arabic vowels, this would eventually evolve into Wadaad's writing. He is accredited in certain areas for the introduction of black-headed...
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    Osman Yusuf Kenadid (category Creators of writing systems)
    Islam in a Clan-based Society, (Red Sea Press: 1998)) Osmanya, Borama, Wadaad's writing and the Somali language Afkeenna iyo fartiisa – a book in Osmanya Somali...
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