Yaasiin Cismaan Keenadiid

Yaasiin Cismaan Keenadiid

Yaasiin (Xaaji/Hagi) Cismaan/Cusmaan Keenadiid (Yasin Osman Keenadiid) is a member of the Keenadiid family. He is related to Ali Yusuf Keenadiid, the former sultan of Hobyo (see Northern Somali sultanates) and to the brother of Ali Yusuf, the creator of the Osmanya alphabet Ciismaan Yuusuf Keenadiid (Osman Yusuf Keenadiid).Yasin Osman Keenadiid is especially known as one of the thirteen founders of the influential Somali Youth League (SYL) and as member of the National Somali Language Committee that decided on the standard spelling of modern Somali.

His best known book is the dictionary that was the only standard Somali dictionary for decades:
*Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 1976 Mogadishu/Firenze, Wasaradda Hiddaha iyo Taclinta Sare,Akademyaha Dhaqanqa.Keenadiid is also known as an influential literary scholar:
*1984 Ina Cabdille Xasan e la sua attività letterararia, Naples, Instituto Universitario Orientale


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