Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare
Somali inventor
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Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare (Somali: Xuseen Sheekh Axmed Kaddare, February 1, 2015) was a Somali inventor.
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Kaddare was born in the town of Adale in the Middle Shebelle region of Somalia in 1934. In 1953, he created the Kaddare script, an orthography named after him that was used to transcribe the Somali language He died on February 1, 2015 in Mogadishu after battling an unspecified illness.