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Description: Includes brief history and table comparing two variants of each script.
Proto-Sinaitic/Phoenician/Aramaic 3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE The Berbers is a large and ancient group of North African people related by language and culture, inhabiting Mediterranean areas stretching from Egypt to the Canary Islands as well as regions south of the Sahara such as Niger and Mali. Their first forays into recorded history were references by Phoenicians and Romans, but by the 3rd century BCE they started inscribing texts in their own script. Fortuitously, some of the inscriptions are bilingual, either Berber-Punic or Berber-Latin texts, which facilitated the decipherment of the Berber script. Names and certain words identified from these texts can be shown to belong to a Berber language, but linguists cannot link the written language to any of the dozen modern Berber languages spoken in North Africa. As such there are still gaps in the understanding of ancient Berber texts.
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