Somalization of the Country

LegendarySSJ4 said:

There needs to be a great somalization of the country, especially in Mogadishu.
I'm seeing pictures of buildings and such that is only written in Turkish and Arabic....
This is an issue.
I expect there to be Somalization of every building/roads signs/schools, etc..
Official language should only be Somali while in schools we should also teach English, Arabic is not needed.

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LegendarySSJ4 said:

@Somalia64 - The Arab league is a useless league and we should leave immediately. It doesn't even help it's local Arab nations how would it help us ? A non-arab nation.

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LegendarySSJ4 said:

BTW there were some nations ( S. Yemen and Libya) that were against us in 77...

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Hector_of_Troy said:

There should be a quota; 90% Somali language 10% foreign in the cities, mainly malls, shopping districts, hotels. Then 50% Somali, 50% English in the airports, seaports & other important transport links. Turkish seems prominent because Turkey is the only country building a f'ck load of infrastructure projects in Somalia worth hundreds of millions. Its like all the Chinese signs popping up across Africa because of their investments.

I agree though Somalization should be implemented once again.

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Hector_of_Troy said:

Whatever man, Africans are building huge dams, wind-farms, gigantic ports, doubling their economies through updated statistics & attracting massive FDI & we are still dealing with pointless stuff.

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Somali language experts are calling on educational institutions and the government to help expand the use of the written language, as many schools in the country do not use an official language curriculum.

The current Somali alphabet is based on a Latin script adapted by Shire Jama Ahmed. It was chosen among 18 competing scripts as Somalia's official script in 1972.

Immediately after its adoption, the government of Mohamed Siad Barre began an aggressive literacy campaign to teach citizens the new alphabet and promote its widespread use.

But more than 40 years later, language and education experts say the Somali language has suffered considerable setbacks in its written form due to the collapse of the government, subsequent decades of war and the downfall of institutions of higher education using Somali for instruction.

There is no fear that the spoken language will become extinct since the number of Somali speakers is increasing throughout East Africa, said Professor Mustafa Abdullahi Feynus, a researcher and member of the Intergovernmental Academy of Somali Language (AGA) who teaches media and journalism studies at Mogadishu University.

The challenge, he said, is in the proliferation of the written language because it is has not been the official language of school instruction since the civil war, and because there has not been sufficient development of books to teach students fundamentals such as grammar and spelling since then.

"No one is producing the educational tools of the Somali language. Therefore, the number of children learning [how to properly write] Somali will be very small," he told Sabahi. "The books should have been developed because academic books are renewed once every five years in the rest of the world."

In addition, he said, schools in Somalia do not have an advanced language curriculum.

After the collapse of Somalia's central government in 1991, thousands of private schools emerged to fill the gap left by the decimated state-owned schools, however a lack of oversight and a standard curriculum has resulted in disparities in the quality of education.

A national Somali language curriculum and more academic institutions that conduct research and build on the work done in the 1970s and 1980s to develop Somali language standards -- such as updating Somali dictionaries with the correct use and spelling of technical and science vocabulary -- are needed to expand and solidify the standard use of the written language, Feynus said.

He said the Regional Somali Language Academy, which was opened in Djibouti last June, is one organisation that is doing such work...

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