Yasin Osman Kenadid (Somali: Yaasiin Cismaan Keenadiid, Arabic: ياسين عثمان كينايديض) (1919–27 November 1988[citation needed]) was a Somali intellectual, writer and linguist.
He was an influential literary scholar, having written a seminal dictionary of the Somali language.
[1] Kenadid was born in Hobyo (Obbia), Somalia during 1919.
He then move to Mogadishu, attending both Italian and Arabic schools where he learned English.
[1] Kenadid helped found the Society for Somali Language and Literature.