|
Post by tangent on May 3, 2020 21:56:37 GMT
I recently published a Facebook message about a beer trail and one of my responses was from a friend whom Facebook lists as ⵎⵓⵏⵉⵔ ⴳ. ⵄⴰⴼⵉⴼⵉ. Many of you will already have guessed that it was Greg but what script is he using? It looks to me like ancient Babylonian or something.
Looking up Greg's basic information on Facebook, I see that he speaks classical Arabic. Aha! I thought, that must be it. So I asked him.
No, he replied, "it's Neo-Tifinagh, the official script to write Tamazight (Berber language) in Morocco."
I'm struggling to understand most of that sentence.
|
|
|
Post by Moose on May 3, 2020 22:45:10 GMT
I actually nearly asked him what the font was - I recognised his picture. Where IS Greg .. someone alert him to this thread?
|
|
|
Post by Kye on May 3, 2020 22:59:09 GMT
I saw it too. Very elegant!
|
|
|
Post by maurusian on May 4, 2020 9:12:53 GMT
Well, since 2011, Morocco has two official languages: Standard Arabic, and Tamazight (more commonly known as Berber). Tamazight has been historically written with 3 scripts: Tifinagh, which is the oldest (3000 years old at least), the Berber-Arabic script (basically an Arabic script adapted for Tamazight), and the Berber-Latin script. Tifinagh itself is not a single script, but several ones sharing some common characters. The one called East-Libyc or Numidian script (mainly found in East-Algeria, Tunisia and Western Libya) is mostly deciphered thanks to a bilingual tablet that was found in the 19th century (and stolen by a British consul unfortunately, now it's in the British Museum). On the left is a text in Punic, and on the right the same text written in Berber using the Numidian script Another one called the West-Libyc or Moorish script is only found in Morocco and Western Algeria, and it remains mostly undecipherable (except for characters that are common with the Numidian script). Neo-Tifinagh is an adaptation of the old Tifinagh scripts with some changes to make it easier to use.
|
|
|
Post by JoeP on May 4, 2020 10:00:54 GMT
We should invent a new script for writing English on EF.
|
|
|
Post by JoeP on May 4, 2020 10:04:02 GMT
I mean, this standard Latin script we use is pretty ancient.
|
|
|
Post by tangent on May 4, 2020 13:06:12 GMT
Thanks for the explanation Greg, it's all a lot more complicated than I expected
|
|
|
Post by kingedmund on May 4, 2020 16:24:46 GMT
That’s pretty cool.
|
|