Tifinagh (Unicode block)

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 55 (+55)
6.0 57 (+2)
6.1 59 (+2)
Note: [1][2]

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

Tifinagh[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+2D3x ⴿ
U+2D4x
U+2D5x
U+2D6x
U+2D7x   ⵿  
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
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 points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.1U+2D30..2D65, 2D6F55L2/98-219N1757Everson, Michael (1998-05-04), Encoding the Tifinagh script
L2/03-083Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-07), Revised Proposal for encoding the Tifinagh Script in the UCS
L2/03-076Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-28), Tifinagh Background Info: Discussion
L2/03-077Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-28), Tifinagh Background Info: Examples
L2/03-078Mohammed, Madi (2003-02-28), Tifinagh Background Info: Photographs
L2/03-110Hunt, Geoffrey (2003-03-05), Comments on Tifinagh Proposal Documents L2/03-076-078, 03-083
L2/03-143Savage, Andrew (2003-05-02), Tifinagh Unicode Propositions
L2/03-150Savage, Andrew (2003-05-09), Request for Tifinagh Characters for Inclusion in the Unicode Font
L2/04-061Andries, Patrick; Yergeau, François; LaBonté, Alain (2004-01-26), Proposal to add the Tifinagh script
L2/04-142RN2739, N2739-1Andries, Patrick (2004-06-06), Proposal to add the Tifinagh Script
L2/04-195Andries, Patrick (2004-06-07), Projet de norme marocaine; Jeux de caractères, Alphabet tifinaghe
L2/04-274N2828Andries, Patrick (2004-06-22), Report of the ad-hoc committee on Tifinagh
L2/05-038N2926Suignard, Michel (2005-01-27), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3760 (FPDAM text for Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
6.0U+2D70, 2D7F2L2/08-198Priest, Lorna; Coblentz, Jon (2008-05-05), Proposal to encode a Tifinagh punctuation character and update TUS documentation
L2/08-198R2N3482Priest, Lorna A.; Coblentz, Jon; Savage, Andrew (2008-07-28), Proposal to encode additional Tifinagh characters
L2/11-112Priest, Lorna A.; Coblentz, Jon (2011-04-20), Documenting a fallback glyph for Tifinagh Consonant Joiner
6.1U+2D66..2D672L2/10-096Anderson, Paul (2010-04-15), Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters for vowels in Tuareg language variants
L2/10-147Priest, Lorna; Coblentz, Jon (2010-04-27), Letter in support: L2/10-096 Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters
L2/10-270N3870Anderson, Paul (2010-07-30), Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters for vowels in Tuareg language variants
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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