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    The Libyco-Berber alphabet is an abjad writing system that was used during the first millennium BC by various Berber peoples of North Africa and the Canary...
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    Tifinagh (redirect from Berber script)
    write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifinagh, is...
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  • letters. The Berber Latin alphabet (Berber languages: Agemmay Amaziɣ Alatin) is the version of the Latin alphabet used to write the Berber languages. It...
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    spoken in ancient Numidia. The script in which it was written, the Libyco-Berber alphabet (from which Tifinagh descended), has been almost fully deciphered...
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    the ancient Libyco-Berber script, which now exists in the form of Tifinagh. Today, they may also be written in the Berber Latin alphabet or the Arabic...
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  • contexts throughout North Africa. Berber flag Royal Institute of the Amazigh Culture Berber language Libyco-Berber alphabet Tifinagh Aïtel, Fazia (2014)....
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  • Atlas Tamazight in central Morocco, Figuig, and Southeastern Berber. Libyco-Berber alphabet 2011 Moroccan constitutional referendum The Amazigh population...
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  • read vertically, commonly on the corner of a stone. The ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet was also written from bottom to top. Left-to-right writing has the...
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  • question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia...
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    Latin alphabet. The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on...
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    Judeo-Berber or Judeo-Amazigh (Berber languages: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵏ ⵡⵓⴷⴰⵢⵏ tamazight n wudayen, Hebrew: ברברית יהודית‎ berberit yehudit) is any of several hybrid...
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    An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes...
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    Tarifit (redirect from Rif-Berber)
    Tarifit Berber, also known as Riffian or locally as Tamazight (Tarifit: Tmaziɣt, pronounced [θmæzɪχt]; Arabic: تريفيت) is a Zenati Berber language spoken...
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  • question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי,[a] Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars...
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    related to modern Berber. The first is the Numidian language, represented by over a thousand short inscriptions in the Libyco-Berber alphabet, found throughout...
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  • Etruscan alphabet, which was the immediate ancestor of the Latin alphabet used by more than 100 languages today, including English. The runic alphabets used...
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    Jugurtha (category 2nd-century BC Berber people)
    Jugurtha or Jugurthen (Libyco-Berber Yugurten or Yugarten, c. 160 – 104 BC) was a king of Numidia. When the Numidian king Micipsa, who had adopted Jugurtha...
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  • Thumbnail for Berber orthography
    Berber orthography is the writing system(s) used to transcribe the Berber languages. In antiquity, the Libyco-Berber script was utilized to write Berber...
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  • Thumbnail for Arabic alphabet
    The Arabic alphabet, or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left...
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    Rune (redirect from Runic alphabets)
    instead of runes. A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic...
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  • The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BCE. Nearly...
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    the ancestors of people who speak Berber languages in North Africa and the Sahara today. The Libyco-Berber alphabet of the ancient Libyans of north Africa...
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  • Thumbnail for Sanhaja de Srair language
    Senhaja de Srair ("Senhaja of Srair") is a Northern Berber language. It is spoken by the Sanhaja Berbers inhabiting the central part of the Moroccan Rif....
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    artefacts have been found. Across the islands are thousands of Libyco-Berber alphabet inscriptions scattered and they have been extensively documented...
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    used to represent /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ respectively, as is usual in the Berber Latin alphabet; also, ⟨°⟩ is used to indicate labialization (IPA /ʷ/), and ⟨ɛ⟩...
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  • grammatical and lexical similarities. The ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet that is still in irregular use by modern Berber groups such as the Tuareg is known by the...
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    from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifinagh, is still favored by the Tuareg Berbers of the Sahara...
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    Ogham (redirect from Celtic tree alphabet)
    [ˈoː(ə)mˠ]; Middle Irish: ogum, ogom, later ogam [ˈɔɣəmˠ]) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions...
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    such as Werner Pichler as the origin of the Libyco-Berber script used among Ancient Libyans (i.e. Proto-Berbers) – citing common similarities to both Proto-Canaanite...
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    Christianization in the 4th century, more extensive texts are known. Libyco-Berber alphabet: over 1,000 inscriptions from the Maghreb, which are dated to Roman...
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