Osmanya

The Osmanya script was created in 1922 and sporadically used to write Somali until 1972. (It is also known as the "Somali alphabet" or "Somali writing".) The Latin alphabet was adopted for Somali in 1973.

• Font sizes for the various fonts above were adjusted to make them roughly the same size for the sake of comparison.
• The characters used for the font samples do not necessarily form words but were chosen for visual variety:
  𐒀𐒁𐒣𐒝𐒎𐒏