Tifinagh
Sign in to saveTifinagh (Tuareg Berber language: ; Neo-Tifinagh: ; Berber Latin alphabet: ; ) is a script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. 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. 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.
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Tifinagh is an ancient script descended from the Libyco-Berber alphabet that is used to write Berber languages across North Africa. The script exists in traditional and modern forms, with the traditional version still used by Tuareg people in the Sahara, while a modernized version called Neo-Tifinagh has been adapted for wider use across the region.
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Key facts
- Writing system.type
- Alphabet
- Writing system.name
- Neo-Tifinagh
- Writing system.languages
- Standard Moroccan Berber and other Northern Berber languages
- Writing system.time
- 1970 to present
- Writing system.fam1
- ? Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Writing system.fam2
- ? Proto-Sinaitic script
- Writing system.fam3
- ? Phoenician alphabet
- Writing system.fam4
- Libyco-Berber alphabet
- Writing system.children
- Neo-Tifinagh (20th century)
- Writing system.sample
- Tifinagh Rendered.svg
- Writing system.caption
- "Tifinagh" written in Neo-Tifinagh.
- Writing system.note
Article
18 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Libyco-Berber
- Saharan Tifinagh
- Tuareg Tifinagh
- Orthography
- Neo-Tifinagh
- Development
- Efforts to promote Tifinagh
- Political history
- Modern use
- Other modifications
- Letters
- Tuareg Tifinagh letters
- Neo-Tifinagh letters
- Unicode
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Tifinagh (Tuareg Berber language: ; Neo-Tifinagh: ; Berber Latin alphabet: ; ) is a script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. 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. 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.
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. Outside of symbolic cultural uses, Latin remains the dominant script for writing Berber languages throughout North Africa.