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Versions of Tifinagh are used to write Berber languages in Morocco, Algeria, Mali and Niger. The Arabic and Latin alphabets are also used. The modern Tifinagh script is also known as Tuareg, Berber or Neo-Tifinagh, to distinguish it from the old Berber Script. In 2003 Tifinagh became the official script for the Tamazight language in Morocco.
To encode a message using the Tifinagh alphabet, it is possible to use the standard Berber transliteration which assigns each letter/symbol of the Berber alphabet an equivalent in the Latin alphabet. The transliteration is not ideal, several symbols can have the same corresponding letter but the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet are available.
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- The Tifinagh (or Amazigh) alphabet is a writing system used primarily by the Tuareg and other Berber peoples in the Sahara and Sahel regions. The...
- To encode a message using the Tifinagh alphabet, it is possible to use the standard Berber transliteration which assigns each letter/symbol of th...
- Decoding the Tifinagh alphabet requires using the transliteration of Berber symbols to their equivalent in the Latin alphabet. It is not a transl...
- Messages written in Tifinagh are characterized by straight, angular strokes with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines as well as circles and d...
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Tifinagh is one of three major competing Berber orthographies alongside the Berber Latin alphabet and the Arabic alphabet. Tifinagh is the official script for Tamazight, an official language of Morocco and Algeria. However, outside of symbolic cultural uses, Latin remains the dominant script for writing Berber languages throughout North Africa.
Dec 29, 2019 · Tifinagh is the alphabet used by the Amazigh people in North Africa to write in Tamazight (Berber language) and record their traditions and customs. Anthropological studies have shown that the ...
English sources are pretty certain that Tifinagh evolved from the Phoenician script that settlers brought with them when they founded Carthage in about 1000 BC. French sources admit the possibility that it evolved from a much older, unknown, native script. [...] Both languages’ sources say that there was an eastern dialect and a western ...
Nov 30, 2018 · Tifinagh is an illustration of the ability of a written language to survive utterly everything: political and military threat, social and cultural change, wind, weather, the biting sands of the Sahara. Tifinagh may be the once and future alphabet. You can help support our research, education and advocacy work.
The Tifinagh alphabet. The Tifinagh alphabet. The Tifinagh alphabet ("Lybico-berber") has been used by Berber speaking people in North Africa and the Canary Islands at least from the third century B.C. up to the third century A.D. The only dated inscription is from 139 B.C. Its use disappeared, or had already disappeared, when the Arabs came.
