Berber Latin Alphabet - Southern-Berber Latin Alphabet (Tuareg)

Southern-Berber Latin Alphabet (Tuareg)

The Southern-Berber (Tuareg) Latin alphabet is made of 36 letters. They are mostly Latin letters with one IPA character and one Greek letter incorporated.

The vowel O is used only in the Latin alphabet of Southern Berber (Tamasheq), not in Northern-Berber. The vowel "O" in Tuareg words mostly corresponds to "U" in Northern Berber words.

36-Letter alphabet for Tuareg-Berber (Tamasheq) as recognized in Mali since 1982
A Ă B D Ḍ E Ǝ F G Ɣ H Ḥ I J K L Ḷ M N Ŋ O Q R S Ṣ Š T Ṭ U W X Y Z Ž Ẓ ʔ
a ă b d ḍ e ǝ f g ɣ h ḥ i j k l ḷ m n ŋ o q r s ṣ š t ṭ u w x y z ž ẓ ɂ
36-Letter Latin alphabet for Tuareg-Berber (Tamasheq), official in Niger since 1999
A Ă Ǝ B C D Ḍ E F G Ǧ H I J ǰ Ɣ K L Ḷ M N Ŋ O Q R S Ṣ Š T Ṭ U W X Y Z Ẓ
a ă ǝ b c d ḍ e f g ǧ h i j ǰ ɣ k l ḷ m n ŋ o q r s ṣ š t ṭ u w x y z ẓ

The Malian national literacy program DNAFLA has proposed a standard for the Latin alphabet, which is used with modifications in Karl G. Prasse's Tuareg French Dictionary and the government literacy program in Burkina. In Niger a slightly different system was used. There is also some variation in Tifinagh and in the Arabic script.

The DNAFLA system is a somewhat morphophonemic orthography, not indicating initial vowel shortening, always writing the directional particle as < dd>, and not indication all assimilations (e.g. for ).

In Burkina Faso the emphatics are denoted by "hooked" letters, as in Fula, e.g. <ɗ ƭ>.

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