Tifinagh (Unicode block)

Tifinagh
RangeU+2D30..U+2D7F
(80 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsTifinagh
Major alphabetsTuareg
Berber
Assigned59 code points
Unused21 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1 (2005)55 (+55)
6.0 (2010)57 (+2)
6.1 (2012)59 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Tifinagh is a Unicode block containing characters of the Neo-Tifinagh alphabet, used for writing Northern Berber and Tuareg Berber in North Africa.

Block

[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+2D3x ⴰ ⴱ ⴲ ⴳ ⴴ ⴵ ⴶ ⴷ ⴸ ⴹ ⴺ ⴻ ⴼ ⴽ ⴾ ⴿ
U+2D4x ⵀ ⵁ ⵂ ⵃ ⵄ ⵅ ⵆ ⵇ ⵈ ⵉ ⵊ ⵋ ⵌ ⵍ ⵎ ⵏ
U+2D5x ⵐ ⵑ ⵒ ⵓ ⵔ ⵕ ⵖ ⵗ ⵘ ⵙ ⵚ ⵛ ⵜ ⵝ ⵞ ⵟ
U+2D6x ⵠ ⵡ ⵢ ⵣ ⵤ ⵥ ⵦ ⵧ ⵯ
U+2D7x ⵰   ⵿  
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tifinagh block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
4.1 U+2D30..2D65, 2D6F 55 L2/98-219 N1757 Everson, Michael (1998-05-04), Encoding the Tifinagh script
L2/03-083 Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-07), Revised Proposal for encoding the Tifinagh Script in the UCS
L2/03-076 Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-28), Tifinagh Background Info: Discussion
L2/03-077 Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-28), Tifinagh Background Info: Examples
L2/03-078 Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-28), Tifinagh Background Info: Photographs
L2/03-110 Hunt, Geoffrey (2003-03-05), Comments on Tifinagh Proposal Documents L2/03-076-078, 03-083
L2/03-143 Savage, Andrew (2003-05-02), Tifinagh Unicode Propositions
L2/03-150 Savage, Andrew (2003-05-09), Request for Tifinagh Characters for Inclusion in the Unicode Font
L2/04-061 Andries, Patrick; Yergeau, François; LaBonté, Alain (2004-01-26), Proposal to add the Tifinagh script
L2/04-142R N2739, N2739-1 Andries, Patrick (2004-06-06), Proposal to add the Tifinagh Script
L2/04-195 Andries, Patrick (2004-06-07), Projet de norme marocaine; Jeux de caractères, Alphabet tifinaghe
L2/04-274 N2828 Andries, Patrick (2004-06-22), Report of the ad-hoc committee on Tifinagh
L2/05-038 N2926 Suignard, Michel (2005-01-27), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3760 (FPDAM text for Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/05-058 Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "A. Tifinagh character name changes", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 1: Unicode 4.1 Issues
L2/05-026 Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 4.1 Consent Docket (B.1.16.1)", UTC #102 Minutes
6.0 U+2D70, 2D7F 2 L2/08-198 Priest, Lorna; Coblentz, Jon (2008-05-05), Proposal to encode a Tifinagh punctuation character and update TUS documentation
L2/08-198R2 N3482 Priest, Lorna A.; Coblentz, Jon; Savage, Andrew (2008-07-28), Proposal to encode additional Tifinagh characters
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Tifinagh", UTC #115 Minutes
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.24b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
L2/11-112 N4069 Priest, Lorna A.; Coblentz, Jon (2011-04-20), Documenting a fallback glyph for Tifinagh Consonant Joiner
L2/11-116 Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "Consensus 127-C1", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes, Update glyph for U+2D7F TIFINAGH CONSONANT JOINER to show a dotted circle with 6 dots below within a dashed box.
N4103 "11.1.4 Glyph for Tifinagh Consonant Joiner", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
6.1 U+2D66..2D67 2 L2/10-096 Anderson, Paul (2010-04-15), Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters for vowels in Tuareg language variants
L2/10-147 Priest, Lorna; Coblentz, Jon (2010-04-27), Letter in support: L2/10-096 Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters
L2/10-108 Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "C.6", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
L2/10-270 N3870 Anderson, Paul (2010-07-30), Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters for vowels in Tuareg language variants
N3903 (pdf, doc) "M57.02g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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