Tifinagh

Tifinagh
Entrance to the town of Kidal. The name is written in Tuareg Tifinagh (ⴾⴸⵍ, KDL) and Latin script.
Script type
Period
6th century BCE
DirectionRight-to-left script, left-to-right, top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top 
LanguagesTuareg Berber language
Related scripts
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Child systems
Neo-Tifinagh (20th century)
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Tfng (120), ​Tifinagh (Berber)
Unicode
Unicode alias
Tifinagh
Unicode range
U+2D30–U+2D7F (with Neo-Tifinagh additions)

Tifinagh (Tuareg Berber language: ⵜⴼⵏⵗ; Neo-Tifinagh: ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ; Berber Latin alphabet: Tifinaɣ; Berber pronunciation: [tifinaɣ]) is a script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet.[2] The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifinagh, is still favored by the Tuareg people of the Sahara desert in southern Algeria, northeastern Mali, northern Niger, and northern Burkina Faso for writing the Tuareg languages.[3] Neo-Tifinagh is an alphabet developed by the Berber Academy by adopting Tuareg Tifinagh for use for Kabyle; it has been since modified for use across North Africa.[4][5]

Tifinagh is one of three major competing Berber orthographies alongside the Berber Latin alphabet and the Arabic alphabet.[6] Tifinagh is the official script for Tamazight, an official language of Morocco and Algeria. Outside of symbolic cultural uses, Latin remains the dominant script for writing Berber languages throughout North Africa.[4][7]

The ancient Libyco-Berber script[8][9] was used by the ancient northern Berbers known as Libyco-Berbers,[10][11] also known as Numidians, Afri, and Mauretanians, who inhabited the northern parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and the Canary Islands.

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  2. ^ LBI LIBYCO-BERBER INSCRIPTIONS ONLINE DATABASE
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  4. ^ a b Campbell, George L. (2012). The Routledge handbook of scripts and alphabets. Christopher Moseley (2nd ed.). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-0-203-86548-4.
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  6. ^ Soulaimani, Dris (2016-01-02). "Writing and rewriting Amazigh/Berber identity: Orthographies and language ideologies". Writing Systems Research. 8 (1): 2–5. doi:10.1080/17586801.2015.1023176. ISSN 1758-6801. S2CID 144700140.
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  8. ^ "Libyco-Berber – 2nd (9th?) century BC-7th century AD". Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  9. ^ Written in stone: the Libyco-Berber scripts
  10. ^ Libyco-Berber relations with ancient Egypt: the Tehenu in Egyptian records
  11. ^ History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century. Edited by Sigfried J. de Laet
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