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Ancient writing system used historically, traditionally, and in many places contemporarily for Berber (Tamazight) languages - Tamasheq, Kabyle, Tarifit, etc. It derives from the ancient Phoenician script, via Old Libyan, the script used by the Numidian kingdom before the Roman invasion. It had dropped out of use in the north by the end of the Roman period, but has remained in continuous use in the Sahara, mainly by the Tuareg.
In the 1960s, Berber activists in the north (initially Kabyles) made efforts to revive Tifinagh there, with some success; their proposals shared three major differences from the Tuaregs' more traditional alphabet:
Following the decision by the government of Morocco in 2003 to teach Tamazight (Tarifit, Tachelhit, and Middle Atlas Tamazight) in the Tifinagh script, a longstanding proposal to encode Tifinagh in Unicode was revived, completed to the level of permitting its use for most dialects, and approved.
See also the Wikipedia articles (references below).
See the language profile for Berber, under 7.1.
| Code | N° | English Name | Nom français | Property Value Alias | Date |
| Tfng | 120 | Tifinagh (Berber) | tifinagh (berbère) | 2004-05-01 |
Source: Codes for the representation of names of scripts / Codes pour la représentation des noms d’écritures, http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html
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