Tifinagh (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Tifinagh
RangeU+2D30..U+2D7F
(80 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsTifinagh
Major alphabetsTuareg
Berber
Assigned59 code points
Unused21 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.155 (+55)
6.057 (+2)
6.159 (+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.

Block

History

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
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), WG2 Consent Docket, Part 1: Unicode 4.1 Issues 
L2/05-026 Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), 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), UTC #115 Minutes 
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), 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), 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 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), 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) Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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