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.