Tifinagh
Proper noun
Meaning
Tifinagh
A script used by some Berber peoples to write their languages, in a historical abjad mode as well as a modern alphabetic mode.
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A modernized form of the Tifinagh alphabet was made official in Morocco in 2003.
In some areas, Arabic vowel diacritics are combined with Tifinagh letters to transcribe vowels, or y, w may be used for long ī and ū. Neo-Tifinagh infobox Neo-Tifinagh is the modern fully alphabetic script developed from earlier forms of Tifinagh.
Orthography Traditional Tifinagh Common forms of the letters are illustrated at left, including various ligatures of t and n. Gemination, though phonemic, is not indicated in Tifinagh.
Tifinagh, Berber-Arabic and Berber-Latin alphabets are being increasingly used in Morocco and Algeria.