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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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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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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Standard Moroccan Amazigh (redirect from Standard Moroccan Berber language)
Atlas Tamazight in central Morocco, Figuig, and Southeastern Berber. Libyco-Berber alphabet 2011 Moroccan constitutional referendum The Amazigh population...
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Writing system (section Alphabets)
read vertically, commonly on the corner of a stone. The ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet was also written from bottom to top. Languages portal Calligraphy...
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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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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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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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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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Judeo-Berber also known as Judeo-Amazigh, Judeo-Tamazigh, and Jewish Amazigh (Berber languages: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵏ ⵡⵓⴷⴰⵢⵏ tamazight n wudayen, Hebrew: ברברית יהודית...
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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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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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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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Afroasiatic languages (section Berber)
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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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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Old Italic scripts (redirect from Estruscan alphabet)
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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Shilha language (redirect from Tashelhiyt Berber)
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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Sanhaja de Srair language (redirect from Senhadja de Srair Berber)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Kabyle people (category Pages with Berber languages IPA)
French. During the first centuries of their history, Kabyles used the Libyco-Berber writing system (ancestor of the modern Tifinagh). Since the beginning...
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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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Proto-Sinaitic script (redirect from Proto-semitic alphabet)
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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