Kaddare alphabet

Kaddare
Script type	Alphabet
Languages	Somali language
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The Kaddare alphabet is an alphabetic script created to transcribe Somali, a Cushitic language in the Afroasiatic language family. The Somali Language Committee, tasked with deciding the script for the nation, officially recommended the Kaddare alphabet, but had to settle for the Latin alphabet due to economic restraints. They stated in their 1961 report “it will be seen in this report that preference was made to one script which had no printing machines against another which had. For instance we recommended the Somali script No 1, by Husein Sh. Ahmed Kaddareh which was not yet printed and rejected the Osmania and the Arabic scripts wich had.”