Meecaadshe

Buuggani wuxuu ka koobanyahay qoraallo badidooda hore loo faafiyay, kuwaas oo falanqaynaya aqoonta miisaanka maansada Soomaaliyeed ee ay daahfureen buuniyada kala ah Gaarriye iyo Carraale sanadkii 1976. Isaga oo ka xogwarramaya sooyaalka qoraalladaas, buuggani wuxuu iftiiminayaa sida ay maansada Soomaaliyeedi u tahay mid hannaansan, hirgashan oo aad u horumarsan, miisaan ahaan iyo murti ahaanba. Sidaa darteed, qoraallada ugu doorka roon ee uu buuggani meecaadinayo waxay soo qaddimayaan hab ku salaysan xisaabta racaynta (combinatorics) oo si cilmi ku dhisan loogu abla-ablayn karo, looguna tirakoobi karo: 1) dhammaan xubnaha maansada iyo 2) meerisyada ay xubin waliba tirayn ahaan ku tusmaysantahay. Si arrimahaas looga gungaarana, buuggani wuxuu diiwaangalinayaa tusaalayaasha 81 xubnood, kuwaas oo uu 12 ka mid ah tiraymahooda soo bandhigayo; wuxuuna, isaga oo tusaalayaal marag u ah ku kaabaya, soo gudbinayaa figradda ah in aysan jiri karin xubno maansada ka dabargo'ay(a) maadaama oo xogta dhismeed ee xubin kasta la ogaan karo, meerisyo tusaalaynayana loo curin karo marka loo baahdo!

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This book consists mostly of previously published articles on the theory of Somali poetic meter first introduced by the scholars Gaarriye and Carraale in 1976. In recounting the history of these articles, the book shows how structured, systematic, and highly developed Somali poetry is. The most important studies in the book present a method based on combinatorics for scientifically classifying and counting: 1) all the metrical forms of Somali poetry, and 2) the number of possible verse types represented by each form. The book records examples of 81 such forms and enumerates all the possible verse types for 12 of them. The main conclusion of these studies is that no metrical form of Somali poetry can become extinct, since the metrical structure of any form can be determined and, when necessary, new verses exemplifying it can be composed.