Transliteration tool I'm working on

[James Dahl]

I started working on this since I got interested in this when I was working on Abtirsi.com and the transliteration of alphabets.

I decided to start experimenting with more kinds of transliteration.

http://abtirsi.com/transliterate.php

Currently it transliterates the Somali alphabet into Arabic, Osmanya, Ancient Greek, Egyptian Heiroglyphics and Ge'ez. I think I'll do Coptic and Meroitic next.

[waryaa]

thnx James - it works!!!

[LobsterUnit]

James u speak Somali?

[DayaxJeclee]

Lol @ Maxaa.. at white people Maḥā



Good job ,

[PrinceDaadi]

"Aniga oo ah Amiir Daadi kana soo Jeeda Geeska Africa iminkana ah Qurbo Jooge qasban"

انِغَ ُو َه امِير دَادِ كَنَ سُو جَىدَ غَىسكَ افرِعَ ِمِنكَنَ َه قُربُ جُوغَ قَسبَن

This is how our forefathers used to write the Somali language.


Btw the Osmaniya thing never actually existed in Somalia, it was invented by some guy no body used it.

[afisoone]

look make it 600 by something. This is not cool design.. Do not worry about the rest of the page. Let it be blank.. That is my advice to you. Make it smaller so we can type words..

[ZubeirAwal]

Great tool, i personally think it would be better for somalis to write in arabic script instead of latin.

Btw when i wrote Xageed in arabic you placed the Ghain instead of the Jiim, i think the jiim would be better.

And the osmanya was not a official script, it was made up by one man and was not used by somalis but himself.

Can you make a Arabic - English transliteration?

[LobsterUnit]

انِغَ ُو َه, شَِخ غَاجُ َوَ ُنِت ِبن عرَزي; وَحَان سَلَامَيَ ُمَدَ ِيُ بُلشَدَ رَىر سُمَلِنَت. غَار َهَان وَحَان سَلَان ذَىر ُ دِرَيَا وَلَال َنغلِغتَنَد سِستَ ِيُ وَلَال نَبَىلَ. وَحَن كَلَ ُو سَلَميَا دَدكَ وَالَن ُو سُ غَلَ قُلكَ سُمَلِنَت ِيُ ذَِمَان دَدكَ قَبيَالَدُ مَسكَحَدَ كَ غَشَي.

see who can decipher that


@abu,Both Arabic and Latin are problematic for Somali language script. According to experts who designed the system Latin is slightly better than Somali. Btw, i heard there were riots in Somalia when the news of latin broke. The Somalis said latin ment la-diin.

[ZubeirAwal]

Somalis before the 20th century wrote in arabic all over, today somalis still write in arabic but the somali script is in latin, i'm gonna lobby the Arabic script for Somaliland, writing and reading arabic should make it easier for people to read the qur'an.

[James Dahl]

Thanks everybody, I have plans to do Arabic to Somali and other alphabets too, I just haven't put those in yet

Somalis before the 20th century wrote in arabic all over, today somalis still write in arabic but the somali script is in latin, i'm gonna lobby the Arabic script for Somaliland, writing and reading arabic should make it easier for people to read the qur'an.

I would have thought a patriotic Somalilander would want the Burco script, or is that just Gadabursi?

[ElfRuler]

Are you still working on the Ge'ez?

[truther]

LOL @ white people.

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

World is getting crazier.

[James Dahl]

Are you still working on the Ge'ez?

Ge'ez only transliterates into Somali, Ancient Greek and "White People" at the moment

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

There's a burco script? Where do you find out this stuff?

Arabic isn't really compatible with the somali language.