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 (2005)	55 (+55)
6.0 (2010)	57 (+2)
6.1 (2012)	59 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

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] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

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8

9

A

B

C

D

E

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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 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 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:

Version	Final code points	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