Tifinagh

Tifinagh (Berber pronunciation: [tifinaɣ]; Neo-Tifinaɣ: ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ; Tuareg Tifinagh: ⵜⴼⵉⵏⵗ or ⵜⴼⵏⵗ) is an abjad script used to write the Berber languages.[1]

The 33 letters of Tifinagh alphabet, according to IRCAM (Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture), and below the correspondences in the Berber Latin alphabet.

History of the alphabet

Egyptian hieroglyphs 32nd c. BCE

Hieratic 32nd c. BCE
- Demotic 7th c. BCE
  - Meroitic 3rd c. BCE
Proto-Sinaitic 19th c. BCE
- Ugaritic 15th c. BCE
- Epigraphic South Arabian 9th c. BCE
  - Geʽez 5–6th c. BCE
- Phoenician 12th c. BCE
  - Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE
    - Samaritan 6th c. BCE
  - Aramaic 8th c. BCE
    - Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE
    - Brahmi 3rd c. BCE
      - Brahmic family (see)
        E.g. Tibetan 7th c. CE
        
        Devanagari 10th c. CE
        Canadian syllabics 1840
    - Hebrew 3rd c. BCE
      - Square Aramaic Alphabet 2007
    - Pahlavi 3rd c. BCE
      - Avestan 4th c. CE
    - Palmyrene 2nd c. BCE
    - Nabataean 2nd c. BCE
      - Arabic 4th c. CE
        N'Ko 1949 CE
    - Syriac 2nd c. BCE
      - Sogdian 2nd c. BCE
        Orkhon (old Turkic) 6th c. CE
        Old Hungarian c. 650 CE
        
        Old Uyghur
        Mongolian 1204 CE
    - Mandaic 2nd c. CE
  - Greek 8th c. BCE
    - Etruscan 8th c. BCE
      - Latin 7th c. BCE
        Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE
        Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE
        
        Deseret 1854 CE
        
        Osage 2006 CE
      - Runic 2nd c. CE
      - Ogham (origin uncertain) 4th c. CE
    - Coptic 3rd c. CE
    - Gothic 3rd c. CE
    - Armenian 405 CE
    - Caucasian Albanian (origin uncertain) c. 420 CE
    - Georgian (origin uncertain) c. 430 CE
    - Glagolitic 862 CE
    - Cyrillic c. 940 CE
      - Old Permic 1372 CE
  - Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7th c. BCE
  - Libyco-Berber 3rd c. BCE
    - Tifinagh

Adlam (slight influence from Arabic) 1989 CE

Hangul 1443 CE

Thaana c. 18 CE (derived from Eastern Arabic numerals and Brahmi numerals)

Refernces

To a limited extent: See Interview Archived 2008-05-03 at the Wayback Machine with Karl-G. Prasse and Penchoen (1973:3)

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