Sheikh Bakri Sapalo (born Abubakar Garad Usman; November 1895 - 5 April 1980) was an Oromo scholar, poet and religious teacher. He is best known as the inventor of a writing system for the Oromo language.
Sheikh BakriSapalo (born Abubakar Garad Usman; November 1895 - 5 April 1980) was an Oromo scholar, poet and religious teacher. He is best known as the...
letters but with different systems. The Sapalo script was an indigenous Oromo script invented by Sheikh BakriSapalo (1895–1980; also known by his birth name...
script for Oromo in Ethiopia was invented in the late 1950s by Sheikh BakriSapalo (1895-1980), and saw limited use. An alphabetic script called Nilerian...
writing some Ethiopian languages spoken by Muslim populations and Sheikh BakriSapalo's script for Oromo. Today, many Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilo-Saharan languages...
with Latin characters known as Qubee. The Sapalo script was invented by the Oromo scholar Sheikh BakriSapalo (also known by his birth name, Abubaker Usman...
over the years by different Ethiopian communities. The latter include BakriSapalo's script for Oromo. According to the 2007 National Census, Christians...
list of notable Oromo people. Ali Birra – Artist Baalu Girma – Artist BakriSapalo – Historian and Artist Boonaa Mohammed – Poetry Elias Melka – Songwriter...
Rashid Bilal, Sheikh Hassan Anano, Sheikh Abdullah al-Harari and Sheikh BakriSapalo. Finished a postgraduate program at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Rashad...
Asmadin of Wej Usman Oda of Emirate of Harar, father of Oromo scholar BakriSapalo Abun Adashe of Adal Sultanate Dhidhin, first chief of the Somali Warsangali...
Salóng - Bhutanese scholar, invented Lepcha script some time around 1700. BakriSapalo - Oromo poet, writer, and teacher from Ethiopia, invented an alphasyllabic...
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