Somali orthography reform

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:language
gptkbp:country gptkb:Somalia
gptkbp:date 1972
gptkbp:effect increased literacy
unified written Somali
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Somali orthography reform
gptkbp:implementedIn gptkb:Somali_government
gptkbp:language Somali
gptkbp:launched gptkb:Siad_Barre
gptkbp:notableFeature no distinction between upper and lower case
exclusion of certain Latin letters (p, v, z)
one letter per phoneme
use of Latin alphabet without diacritics
gptkbp:purpose standardize Somali writing system
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Somali_National_Academy_of_Culture
Somali language policy
gptkbp:replacedBy gptkb:Borama_script
gptkb:Wadaad_script
gptkb:Osmanya_script
Arabic script
gptkbp:resultedIn adoption of Latin alphabet
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Hirsi_Magan_Isse
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6