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Unicode Status for Tifinagh

In The Unicode Standard, Tifinagh script implementation is discussed in Chapter 19 Africa and in UTN 59: Representing Tifinagh in Unicode.

The Tifinagh script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.1. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Tifinagh2D30..2D7F4.1U2D30.pdf

Subsequent to version 4.1, the following characters have been added to the Tifinagh script:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
2D66..2D676.1n3870.pdf L2/10-270
2D706.0n3482.pdf L2/08-198
2D7F6.0n3482.pdf L2/08-198

Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals

A number of proposals for its inclusion were submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 1992-10-23 Tifinagh, Numidian — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)

  • 1998-05-04 Encoding the Tifinagh script — Michael Everson (WG2 N1757, L2/98-219)

  • 2003-02-07 Revised Proposal for encoding the Tifinagh Scripts in the UCS — Madi Mohammed (L2/03-083)

  • 2003-02-28 Tifinagh Background Info: Discussion — Madi Mohammed (L2/03-076)

  • 2003-02-28 Tifinagh Background Info: Examples — Madi Mohammed (L2/03-077)

  • 2003-02-28 Tifinagh Background Info: Photographs — Madi Mohammed (L2/03-078)

  • 2003-03-05 Comments on Tifinagh Proposal Documents L2/03-076-078, 03-083 — Geoffrey Hunt (L2/03-110)

  • 2003-05-02 Tifinagh Unicode Propositions (script samples) — Andrew Savage (L2/03-143)

  • 2003-05-09 Request for Tifinagh Characters for Inclusion in the Unicode Font — Andrew Savage (L2/03-150)

  • 2004-01-26 Proposal to add the Tifinagh script — Patrick Andries, François Yergeau, Alain LaBonté (L2/04-061)

  • 2004-06-06 Proposal to add the Tifinagh script — Morocco-Canada-France (WG2 n2739.pdf, WG2 N2739-1, L2/04-142)

  • 2004-06-07 Projet de norme marocaine; Jeux de caractères, Alphabet tifinaghe — Patrick Andries (L2/04-195)

  • 2004-06-22 Report of the ad-hoc committee on Tifinagh — Patrick Andries (WG2 N2828.doc), L2/04-274)

  • 2005-01-26 Tifinagh Name Annotations — Michel Suignard (WG2 N2926)

  • 2008-07-11 Proposal to encode additional Tifinagh characters — Lorna Priest, Jon Coblentz, Andrew Savage (WG2 N3482, L2/08-198)

  • 2009-04-22 Report to JTC1 Chair and JTC1/SC2 Chair Regarding Resolution 34 on African Languages — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3641, L2/09-285)

  • 2010-04-07 Unification of the Tifinagh script - considerations — Paul Anderson (L2/10-113)

  • 2010-04-15 Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters for vowels in Tuareg language variants — Paul Anderson (L2/10-096)

  • 2010-04-27 Letter in support: L2/10-096 Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters — Lorna Priest, Jon Coblentz (L2/10-147)

  • 2010-07-30 Proposal to add two Tifinagh characters for vowels in Tuareg language variants — Paul Anderson (WG2 N3870, L2/10-270)

  • 2010-08-02 Evolution of the Tifinagh script in Unicode — Paul Anderson (L2/10-278)

  • 2010-08-08 Tifinagh Summary Document (based on L2/10‐278 by Paul Anderson) — Deborah Anderson (L2/10-313)

  • 2011-04-20 Documenting a fallback glyph for Tifinagh Consonant Joiner — Lorna Priest, Jon Coblentz (WG2 N4069, L2/11-112)

  • 2020-01-06 Proposal to synchronize two glyphs in the Core Specification — Marcel Schneider (L2/20-011)

    • Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-046) (See point 13a.)

    • UTC #162 Minutes (L2/20-015) (See B.10.17.1.6 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-03-03 Update on implementation status of African scripts — Charles L. Riley (L2/22-073)

    • Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-068) (See point 28.)

    • UTC #171 Minutes (L2/22-061) (See D.1 SECTION 28 for decision and action items)

  • 2023-09-08 Update on Usage and Implementation Status of African Scripts — Oreen Yousuf, Charles Riley, Daniel Yacob, Neil Patel, Tim Brookes (L2/23-203)

    • Recommendations to UTC #177 November 2023 on Script Proposals (L2/23-238) (See point C.26.)

  • 2024-05-23 Submission Dossier for the Libyc Script to Unicode — Société d’Histoire Nord-Africaine (SHNA) (L2/24-247)

    • Recommendations to UTC #181 November 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-228) (See point 8.)

  • 2024-11-01 Tifinagh and Combining Diacritics Recommendations to UTC #181 November 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-228) (See point 4.2.)

    • UTC #181 Minutes (L2/24-221) (See D.1 4.2 for decision and action items)