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Musa Haji Ismail Galal

Musa Haji Ismail Galal (Somali: Muuse Xaaji Ismaaciil Galaal, Arabic: موسى الحاج اسماعيل جلال) (1917–1980) was a Somali polymath who was active as a writer, scholar, linguist, poet, historian, anthropologist, and a meteorologist. He is notable for playing a key role in the development of and the creation of Galaal script, a controversial standardized Somali Arabic script which is the only instance where new letters were introduced to an Arabic script with no relation to any of the existing letters.

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• ▸History of Western typography
• ▸Christmas
• ▸Columbus's letter on the first voyage

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