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

Block

Tifinagh[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+2D3xⴿ
U+2D4x
U+2D5x
U+2D6x
U+2D7x⵿
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 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:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.1U+2D30..2D65, 2D6F55Everson, Michael (1998-05-04), Encoding the Tifinagh script
Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-07), Revised Proposal for encoding the Tifinagh Script in the UCS
Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-28), Tifinagh Background Info: Discussion
Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-28), Tifinagh Background Info: Examples
Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-28), Tifinagh Background Info: Photographs
Hunt, Geoffrey (2003-03-05), Comments on Tifinagh Proposal Documents L2/03-076-078, 03-083
Savage, Andrew (2003-05-02), Tifinagh Unicode Propositions
Savage, Andrew (2003-05-09), Request for Tifinagh Characters for Inclusion in the Unicode Font
Andries, Patrick; Yergeau, François; LaBonté, Alain (2004-01-26), Proposal to add the Tifinagh script
,Andries, Patrick (2004-06-06), Proposal to add the Tifinagh Script
Andries, Patrick (2004-06-07), Projet de norme marocaine; Jeux de caractères, Alphabet tifinaghe
Andries, Patrick (2004-06-22), Report of the ad-hoc committee on Tifinagh
Suignard, Michel (2005-01-27), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3760 (FPDAM text for Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "A. Tifinagh character name changes", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 1: Unicode 4.1 Issues
Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 4.1 Consent Docket (B.1.16.1)", UTC #102 Minutes
6.0U+2D70, 2D7F2Priest, Lorna; Coblentz, Jon (2008-05-05), Proposal to encode a Tifinagh punctuation character and update TUS documentation
Priest, Lorna A.; Coblentz, Jon; Savage, Andrew (2008-07-28), Proposal to encode additional Tifinagh characters
Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Tifinagh", UTC #115 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.24b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
Priest, Lorna A.; Coblentz, Jon (2011-04-20), Documenting a fallback glyph for Tifinagh Consonant Joiner
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.
"11.1.4 Glyph for Tifinagh Consonant Joiner", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
6.1U+2D66..2D672Anderson, Paul (2010-04-15), Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters for vowels in Tuareg language variants
Priest, Lorna; Coblentz, Jon (2010-04-27), Letter in support: L2/10-096 Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters
Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "C.6", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
Anderson, Paul (2010-07-30), Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters for vowels in Tuareg language variants
, )"M57.02g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31