Tifinagh

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.^[1] The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifinagh, is still favored by the Tuareg Berbers of the Sahara desert in southern Algeria, northeastern Mali, northern Niger, and northern Burkina Faso for writing the Tuareg Berber language. Neo-Tifinagh is an alphabet developed by Berber Academy to adopt Tuareg Tifinagh for use with Kabyle; it has been since modified for use across North Africa.^[2]^[3]

Tifinagh is one of three major competing Berber orthographies alongside the Berber Latin alphabet and the Arabic alphabet.^[4] 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.^[2]^[5]

The ancient Libyco-Berber script^[6]^[7] (or the Libyc script) was used by the ancient northern Berbers known as Libyco-Berbers,^[8]^[9] also known as Libyc people, Numidians, Afri, and Mauretanians, who inhabited the northern parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and the Canary Islands.

^ LBI LIBYCO-BERBER INSCRIPTIONS ONLINE DATABASE
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^ 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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^ Libyco-Berber – 2nd (9th?) century BC-7th century AD
^ Written in stone: the Libyco-Berber scripts
^ Libyco-Berber relations with ancient Egypt: the Tehenu in Egyptian records
^ History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century. Edited by Sigfried J. de Laet

[1] LBI LIBYCO-BERBER INSCRIPTIONS ONLINE DATABASE

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[4] 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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[6] Libyco-Berber – 2nd (9th?) century BC-7th century AD

[7] Written in stone: the Libyco-Berber scripts

[8] Libyco-Berber relations with ancient Egypt: the Tehenu in Egyptian records

[9] History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century. Edited by Sigfried J. de Laet

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