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Borama
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The Gadabuursi script, also known as the Borama script (Borama: ),[1] is an alphabetic script for the Somali language. It was devised around 1933 by Sheikh Abdurahman Sheikh Nuur of the Gadabuursi clan.[2]

  1. ^ Somali alphabets, pronunciation and language at Omniglot
  2. ^ Laitin, David D. (1 May 1977). Politics, Language, and Thought: The Somali Experience. University of Chicago Press. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-0-226-46791-7. Retrieved 2 July 2012.

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