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- Zaghawa_alphabet abstract "The Zaghawa or Beria alphabet, Beria Giray Erfe ('Zaghawa Writing Marks'), is an indigenous alphabetic script proposed for the Zaghawa AKA Beria language of Darfur and Chad. In the 1950s, a Sudanese Zaghawa schoolteacher named Adam Tajir created an alphabet for the Zaghawa language that was based on the clan brands used for livestock, especially camels. Sometimes known as the camel alphabet, he copied the inventory of the Arabic script, so the system was not ideal for Zaghawa. In 2000, a Zaghawa veterinarian named Siddick Adam Issa adapted Tajir's script to Zaghawa, which has proven popular in the Zaghawa community. The typography is somewhat unusual in that capital letters have descenders which drop below the baseline of the lower-case letters and punctuation, rather than rising above lower-case letters as in the Latin alphabet. Beria Giray Erfe is a full alphabet, with independent letters for vowels; however, diacritics are used to mark tone (grave accent for falling tone and acute accent for rising tone; high, mid, and low tone are unmarked), as well as advanced tongue root vowels (a macron derives /i e ə o u/ from the letters for /ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ/).The letter for /p/, which does not occur in Zaghawa or in Arabic, is written by adding a tail to the letter for /b/. Likewise, /ʃ/ is derived from the letter for /s/ with a cross stroke. There apparently is no letter for /ħ/, nor a distinction between /ɾ/ and /r/, both of which have been reported for Zaghawa. European numerals and punctuation are used. A preliminary proposal to map the script into Unicode space for future universal computer support was made in 2007.".
- Zaghawa_alphabet thumbnail Beria_Giray_Erfe.png?width=300.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageExternalLink page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ZaghawaBeria_Home.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageID "28253804".
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageLength "2445".
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageOutDegree "21".
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageRevisionID "621624981".
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Acute_accent.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Advanced_and_retracted_tongue_root.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Advanced_tongue_root.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Alphabet.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Arabic_script.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Camel.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Category:1950_introductions.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Category:Alphabets.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Category:Saharan_languages.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Category:Scripts_not_encoded_in_Unicode.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Category:Writing_systems_of_Africa.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Chad.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Darfur.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Descender.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Diacritic.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Falling_tone.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Grave_accent.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Livestock_branding.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Macron.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Rising_tone.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Tone_contour.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink Zaghawa_language.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLink File:Beria_Giray_Erfe.png.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLinkText "Zaghawa (Beria)".
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLinkText "Zaghawa alphabet".
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageWikiLinkText "an alphabet based on livestock brands".
- Zaghawa_alphabet hasPhotoCollection Zaghawa_alphabet.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:IPA.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Sc.
- Zaghawa_alphabet subject Category:1950_introductions.
- Zaghawa_alphabet subject Category:Alphabets.
- Zaghawa_alphabet subject Category:Saharan_languages.
- Zaghawa_alphabet subject Category:Scripts_not_encoded_in_Unicode.
- Zaghawa_alphabet subject Category:Writing_systems_of_Africa.
- Zaghawa_alphabet hypernym Script.
- Zaghawa_alphabet type Language.
- Zaghawa_alphabet type Software.
- Zaghawa_alphabet type Alphabet.
- Zaghawa_alphabet type Language.
- Zaghawa_alphabet comment "The Zaghawa or Beria alphabet, Beria Giray Erfe ('Zaghawa Writing Marks'), is an indigenous alphabetic script proposed for the Zaghawa AKA Beria language of Darfur and Chad. In the 1950s, a Sudanese Zaghawa schoolteacher named Adam Tajir created an alphabet for the Zaghawa language that was based on the clan brands used for livestock, especially camels. Sometimes known as the camel alphabet, he copied the inventory of the Arabic script, so the system was not ideal for Zaghawa.".
- Zaghawa_alphabet label "Zaghawa alphabet".
- Zaghawa_alphabet sameAs Zaghawa-Schrift.
- Zaghawa_alphabet sameAs Zaghawa_(alphabet).
- Zaghawa_alphabet sameAs m.0cnxksk.
- Zaghawa_alphabet sameAs Q140323.
- Zaghawa_alphabet sameAs Q140323.
- Zaghawa_alphabet wasDerivedFrom Zaghawa_alphabet?oldid=621624981.
- Zaghawa_alphabet depiction Beria_Giray_Erfe.png.
- Zaghawa_alphabet isPrimaryTopicOf Zaghawa_alphabet.