15.Text Genre Author Date Place Publication
of 0; or Place of
Composition Composition Deposit
23 Jiifto Sh.Caaqib circa 1940- Jigjiga L/SOAS
Cabdilaahi 69
24 Jiifto Sh.Xuseen circa 1850- Unknown L/SOAS, in
Xasan 1960 Sh.CaaqibCabdilaahi's
collection
25 Gabay Sh.Caaqib circa 1940- Muqdisho L/SOAS
Cabdi1aahi 69II
Transcription
The symbols which I have used to transcribe the Somali
texts of the poems are the same as those of the National
Orthography. The main characteristics of this script
are explained in Andrzejewski and Lewis 1964 and Andrzejewski
1974b; nevertheless, it might be useful to give here a
conversion table in which the Arabic equivalents of some of
the unusual consonant symbols of the Somali orthography
are shown. They are as follows:x 0"
kh.
r;
dh J .".
c t
q 0 ."
.
Since this work deals both with Somali and classical
Arabic sources, I have often met with some difficulty in