Zaghawa alphabet

The Zaghawa Beria or alphabet, Beria Giray Erfe ( ' Zaghawa characters '), is the alphabetic writing of the Zaghawa and their language Zaghawa Beria in Chad and Darfur (West Sudan).

The new font based on a local system of signs. In the 1950s, the Sudanese Zaghawa schoolteacher Adam Tajir codified an alphabet for the Zaghawa language based on the traditional clan - fire Marie implications for livestock, especially camels. Sometimes known as the Kame alphabet, he first copied the inventory of the Arabic script, the official script of the state - so the system was not ideal for the Zaghawa.

In 2000, the Zaghawa veterinarian Siddick Adam Issa adapted the script from Tajir in the Zaghawa, which was well received any of the Zaghawa community. The typography is somewhat unusual because the uppercase letters have descenders that extend below the baseline, rather than to stick out like in the Latin alphabet small letters above. Beria Giray Erfe is a complete alphabet, with independent letters for vowels; However, diacritics are used to mark the pitch: Grave Accent for falling tones and Accent aigu for rising tones; high, middle and low are unmarked. In addition, there are advanced tongue length vowels. A macron branches / ie ə ou / of the letter for / ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ /.

The letter for / p /, which does not occur in Zaghawa or in the official language of Arabic is written by adding a tail to the letter for / b /. Similarly, / ʃ / derived from the Büchstaben for / s / with a cross stroke. There is also no rule in the letter for / ħ /, no distinction between / ɾ / and / r /, although both occur in the Zaghawa language.

European numerals and Punktuationen also be used in the Scriptures. A proposal for the detection of the font to Unicode for future universal computer support was made in 2007.