Borama (Gadabuursi)

African

script: Qa85

family: African

type: alphabet

whitespace: between words

open_type_tag: none

complex_positioning: unknown

unicode: true

status: Historical

baseline: bottom

ligatures: unspecified

direction: ltr

The Borama script, also referred to as Gadabuursi, is a Somali script. It was designed in 1933 by Sheikh Cabduraxmaan Nuur from the Gadabuursi clan in the Borama region of Northern Somali. The script was used by only a small group of associates of the Sheikh in Borama.

The alphabet includes 27 consonants and 7 vowels.

This script is not currently recognized by the ISO 15924 standard, but is included in ScriptSource for research purposes. If you have any information on this script, please add the information to this site. Your contributions can be a great help in refining and expanding the ISO 15924 standard. The Script Encoding Initiative is working to support the inclusion of this script in the standard, and contributions here will support their efforts.