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Libyco-Berber alphabet
| Libyco-Berber alphabet | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Script type | |
Time period | Sometime during the first millennium BC to the 4th-7th century AD |
| Direction | Various, but usually bottom-to-top or right-to-left |
| Languages | Numidian language, Libyco-Berber (ancient or classical Berber language) |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs
|
Child systems | Tifinagh (Tuareg Tifinagh) |
The Libyco-Berber alphabet is an abjad writing system that was used during the first millennium BC by various Berber peoples of North Africa and the Canary Islands, to write ancient varieties of the Berber language like the Numidian language.[2][3][4][5][6]
The use of the Libyco-Berber alphabet died out in northern areas during or after the reign of the Roman and Byzantine empires, but it spread south into the Sahara desert and evolved there into the Tuareg Tifinagh alphabet used by the Tuareg Berbers to this day.
- ^ L'ECRITURE LIBYCO-BERBERE: Etat des lieux et perspectives
- ^ "Libyco-Berber - 2nd (9th?) century BC-7th century AD". Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
- ^ "Libyco-Berber relations with ancient Egypt: the Tehenu in Egyptian records". Archived from the original on 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
- ^ J.-B. CHABOT. — RECUEIL DES INSCRIPTIONS LIBYQUES.
- ^ L'alphabet libyque de Dougga, Lionel Galand, 1973
- ^ Inscriptions libyques, Lionel Galand, 1966
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