Three thousand years
in the desert

The Tifinagh script descends from the ancient Libyco-Berber abjad, an alphabet without vowels, which appears on rock carvings and tomb inscriptions across the Sahara and Atlas Mountains going back several millennia. Tifinagh survived through the Tuareg nomads of the deep Sahara, who etched it into camel saddles, silver jewellery, and the bark of trees.

In 2003, Morocco's Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe standardized the modern Neo-Tifinagh alphabet and introduced it into 120 schools. In 2004, Unicode 4.1 assigned it a permanent block at U+2D30–U+2D7F. In 2011, Article 5 of Morocco's amended constitution established Tamazight as an official state language alongside Arabic.

Neo-Tifinagh is written from left to right. The ancient script could run in more than one direction, but the modern IRCAM standard is consistently left to right. This translator follows that standard for every output.

Tifinagh was built for Tamazight. English and Arabic sounds do not always have a direct equivalent, so the translator provides a phonetic approximation rather than a linguistic translation.