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Kaddare script

writing system

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ6345291 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Kaddare script is a poorly known alphabetic script created to transcribe the Somali language. There are no known books written in the script.

History

The script was invented in 1952 by a Sufi Sheikh, named Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare.

The Somali Language Committee, tasked in 1961 with deciding on a script for the nation after independence, recommended the Kaddare script, but had to settle for the Latin alphabet due to economic constraints. They appraised Kaddare as being the most accurate indigenous script for transcribing the Somali language.

See also

Somali orthography

Borama

Osmanya

References

External links

Kaddare alphabet at Omniglot

Cassanelli, Lee (2016). "Reflections on the 12th SSIA Congress". Bildhaan. 16 (1): 93–94.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kaddare script” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.