Maxamed - Mohamed

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Maxamed - Mohamed

1Cynfelyn
Aug 22, 2022, 6:53 am

Filling in a few fields of CK as best I could for Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame ('Hadrawi'), the Somaliland poet, whose death has been announced recently, I see that the cover of his one book on LT gives his name as Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame ('Hadraawi'). Also that while the English Wikipedia uses Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame ('Hadrawi'), French Wikipédia uses Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame ('Hadraawi').

Is this 'just' the difference between (perhaps?) the transposition of Arabic and Somali scripts into Latin script, or something else?

Whatever, Hadrawi becomes yet another LT author waiting for Arabic CK (hint, hint). Feel free to edit my efforts too. Unfortunately Somali is not yet supported as an LT language, despite having over twenty million speakers.

2Dilara86
Aug 22, 2022, 8:12 am

>1 Cynfelyn: Is this 'just' the difference between (perhaps?) the transposition of Arabic and Somali scripts into Latin script, or something else?
Perhaps also differences in accent/pronunciation. I've started Temporary Homes by another Mohamed Warsame (mistakenly thinking he was *The* Hadrawi - it's clearly a widespread name!) and I've noticed the substitution of final Ms with Ns: "iman" instead of "imam" for example.