(Script definition: dictionary say "the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, cursive writing).
Somali language had no written scripts before 1972 but, Somalis were still educated throug other languges, such as English, Arabic, Italian and etc, according to Somali and foreign historians.
Before 1972 Somalis could write and speak those three languages fluently. Due to educational stage limits, only elementary levels could be available to graduate, where high schools and colleges were future dreams. But highly qualified teachers and educators were the product of those elementary schools.
Since that, many different Somali script were proposed after the independent in 1960. Finally Somali Latin alphabet were adopted officially in 1972. The good thing here is to have our own scripts, but the bad thing was when the school syllabus were based on Somali language include the scientific course such as mathematics, biology, chemistry, and so on, all science terminologies were translated into Somali. To my way of thinking, it wasn't pretty awesome to implement such this ugly ideology or to Somalizize the school curriculum which caused huge setback to Somali society. Many Somali scholars suffered language barrier when they travelled to overseas.
Governments shape the societies, yes we had good quality of educational system but, the bad impact was, the change of school syllabus into local language. I wasn't much lucky to be one of Somali National University graduates because of my age, but I wouldn't be so happy too, to look ignorant while I'm educator and graduate from the local National University.
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