Neil Harris wrote:
Thanks for the link in the [[Berber alphabet]] article: given that reference, this Latinized version of the Berber alphabet looks like it should be able to be round-tripped to/from the Tifinagh script.
I'm only confused by one thing: the article says that the two non-Latin characters are Cyrillic, but both of the characters listed in the tables themselves appear at first sight to be Greek letters (epsilon and gamma respectively).
(See also http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/natlang/berber/tifinagh/tifinagh-ircam.html)
However, I think they might be intended to be
U+025B LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E (which looks like an epsilon)
and
U+0263 LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA (which looks like a gamma)
respectively. This would also have the effect of making the Latinized Berber alphabet much easier to work with, since every character in it would then be within either the Unicode Latin or IPA extensions ranges, and thus fall entirely within the Latin writing system.
-- Neil
If the above is the case, then the Unicode translation table, based on the [[Berber alphabet]] article, would then look like this:
Latin Tifinagh
U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A <-> U+2D30
U+0042 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B <-> U+2D31
U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C <-> U+2D5B
U+0044 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D <-> U+2D37
U+0045 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E <-> U+2D3B
U+0046 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F <-> U+2D3C
U+0047 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G <-> U+2D33
U+0048 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H <-> U+2D40
U+0049 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I <-> U+2D49
U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J <-> U+2D4A
U+004B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K <-> U+2D3D
U+004C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L <-> U+2D4D
U+004D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M <-> U+2D4E
U+004E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N <-> U+2D4F
U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q <-> U+2D47
U+0052 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R <-> U+2D54
U+0053 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S <-> U+2D59
U+0054 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T <-> U+2D5C
U+0055 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U <-> U+2D53
U+0057 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W <-> U+2D61
U+0058 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X <-> U+2D45
U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y <-> U+2D62
U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z <-> U+2D63
U+010D LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON <-> U+2D5B
U+1E0D LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH DOT BELOW <-> U+2D39
U+011F LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH BREVE <-> U+2D35
U+1E25 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH DOT BELOW <-> U+2D43
U+1E63 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DOT BELOW <-> U+2D5A
U+1E6D LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH DOT BELOW <-> U+2D5F
U+1E93 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT BELOW <-> U+2D65
U+025B LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E <-> U+2D44
U+0263 LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA <-> U+2D56
Presumably, since there is no case distinction in Tifinagh, both the upper and lowercase versions of the Latin letters should map onto the same Tifinagh letters. Is there a particular preference about the mapping in the opposite direction?
Certainly most Latin-alphabet readers would find all-lower-case preferable to all-upper-case for comfortable reading, and the table at http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/natlang/berber/tifinagh/tifinagh-ircam.html also suggests that lowercase was intended to be the standard.
-- Neil