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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.
The 33 letters of Tifinagh alphabet, according to IRCAM (Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture), and below the correspondences in the Berber Latin alphabet. Tifinagh ( Berber pronunciation: [tifinaɣ]; Neo-Tifinaɣ: ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ; Tuareg Tifinagh: ⵜⴼⵉⵏⵗ or ⵜⴼⵏⵗ) is an abjad script used to write the Berber languages.
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.
Tifinagh (Tuareg Tifinagh) The Libyco-Berber alphabet or the Libyc alphabet is an abjad writing system that was used during the first millennium BC by various Berber peoples of North Africa and the Canary Islands , to write ancient varieties of the Berber language like the Numidian language in ancient North Africa.
Berber Latin alphabet. This article contains Tifinagh text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tifinagh letters. The Berber Latin alphabet ( Berber languages: Agemmay Amaziɣ Alatin) is the version of the Latin alphabet used to write the Berber languages.
Nov 30, 2018 · Tifinagh may be a descendant of one of the oldest scripts in the world. Its name may mean “Phoenician letters,” and Phoenician was the alphabet from which Ancient Greek was developed. And, like Mandaean and Samaritan, it may have survived in something like its original form because it was an outsider language.
Tifinagh is a script used by the semi-nomadic Tuareg peoples of northwestern Africa to write their language, Tamashek. Inspired by neo-Punic, an African form of the Phoenician alphabet, Tifinagh is related to scripts that were employed for writing ancient Berber languages.
