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
  • Proto-Sinaitic 19th c. BCE
    • Ugaritic 15th c. BCE
    • Epigraphic South Arabian 9th c. BCE
    • Phoenician 12th c. BCE
      • Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE
        • Samaritan 6th c. BCE
      • Aramaic 8th c. BCE
      • 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


Adlam (slight influence from Arabic) 1989 CE

Hangul 1443 CE

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

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

Refernces

  1. ↑ 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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