Toira wrote:
-Modern Tifinagh works exactly like the latin alphabet, it is written from left to right and has vowels, so it is easily convertible to latin with the use of a software (it would take less than one second for the whole process). but as I said earlier we seek efficiency in both real world and internet. No one's going to read the articles in the tifinagh alphabet... and especially write them on a paper. I have an experience of 5 years writing with the tifinagh alphabet, but still, it takes about 5 seconds to write a word in tifinagh but less than 1 second in latin. (don't forget that tifinagh dates back to 500 BC, so the letters are very primitive, very big, and complex to write.. I'd say draw since they look like geometric figures). Trying to improve the tifinagh would mean creating a new alphabet, sincerely we do not have the capacity. Also, "improving" means that it (tifinagh) is used, which is not the case.
Given your arguments above, it looks like a no-brainer to start the Kabyle wiki in the Latin script.
However, if there is, as you say, a deterministic transformation to/from Tifinagh, we could easily later use a variant of the multi-script software currently used to handle the different Chinese scripts on the Chinese Wikipedia to implement a dual-script interface, or at the least an alternative Tifinagh display mode for the Latin-based text.
Do you have any references for Tifinagh <-> Latin transliteration?
-- Neil