death_place birth_place ethnicity birth_date article_title name occupation
rome , italy hobyo , somalia somali 1919 yasin osman kenadid
 yasin osmaan kenadid ياسين عثمان كينايديض writer , political activist
yasin osman kenadid

yasin osman kenadid -lrb- , -rrb- -lrb- 1919-27 november 1988 -rrb- was a somali intellectual , writer and linguist .
he was an influential literary scholar , having written a seminal dictionary of the somali language .
