Sheikh Abdurahman Sheikh Nuur ‎الشيخ عبد الرحمن نور
Born	Borama, Somalia
Ethnicity	Somali
Occupation	teacher, judge

Sheikh Abdurahman Sheikh Nuur (Somali: Abduuraxmaan Sheekh Nuur, Arabic: الشيخ عبد الرحمن نور‎) was a Somali religious leader and the inventor of the Borama script for the Somali language.

Contents 1 Biography 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Nuur was born in Borama, Somalia to a Gadabuursi Dir family.

He was a Qur'anic teacher in the British Somaliland protectorate, and the son of the local qadi (judge) of Borama. Sheikh Nuur would later follow in his father's footsteps by also becoming a qadi, albeit of the entire northern British Somaliland region.

In 1933, Sheikh Nuur devised a quite phonetically accurate new orthography for transcribing the Somali language. While the script enjoyed considerable currency in his hometown, the Sheikh harbored no illusions as to its widespread adoption, writing in a publication of his wherein he employed the script itself that "I publish it here with no intention of attempting to contribute to the already abundant confusion in the choice of a standard orthography for Somali".

[edit] See also

• Osmanya script
• Borama script
• Kaddare script
• Wadaad's writing
• Osman Yusuf Kenadid
• Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare

[edit] References

• David D. Laitin, Politics, language, and thought: the Somali experience, (University of Chicago Press: 1977)
• The Gadabuursi Somali Script

[edit] External links

• Osmanya, Borama, Wadaad's writing and the Somali language
• The Gadabuursi Somali Script - qasidas in Gadabuursi/Borama

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