| Tifinagh | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+2D30..U+2D7F (80 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Tifinagh |
| Major alphabets | Tuareg Berber |
| Assigned | 59 code points |
| Unused | 21 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 4.1 (2005) | 55 (+55) |
| 6.0 (2010) | 57 (+2) |
| 6.1 (2012) | 59 (+2) |
| 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.
| Tifinagh [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 | ||||||||||||||||
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tifinagh block:
| Version | Final code points [lower-alpha 1] | 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 | ||||
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