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Use Keyman Web to Type in Tamajaq With Keyman Web you can now type in Tamajaq, directly from your browser without downloading any special software. Keyman Web is an online tool that works in any browser including Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, as well as many others. Keyman Web is platform neutral, […]
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At Tamajaq.com one of our main goals is the facilitation and promotion of print and online use of the Tamajaq (ttq) language. Currently Tamajaq language users find many limitations when trying to use the Tamajaq language online. 1) No substantial online dictionaries exist, neither a pure Tamajaq dictionary nor any significant bi-lingual dictionaries. This problem
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Tagmukay Font for Typing in Shifinagh There are many common Unicode fonts that will enable you to type the characters of the Tifinagh (Tfng) script. However as of now, there is only one, Tagmukay Font, that will enable you to type all of the characters needed for the Shifinagh script of the Tawallammat Tamajaq (ttq)
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The Akatab font is a TrueType font with Graphite and OpenType features (SmartFont) to generate the glyphs that either supplement or differ from the characters in the Tifinagh Unicode block. This font appears to have been created primarily for typing in the Shifinagh of the Tamahaq (thv) language, though its description says it is also
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We are developing Keyman keyboards that should make it much easier to type in Tawallammat Tamajaq. The goal is to have keyboards that will work any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Mobile Devices). The first keyboard we are working on is a keyboard for typing in the Shifinagh used to write the Tawallammat language of
Below are greetings in Shifinagh to all our friends. I present the greetings 3 times to demonstrate 3 different methods for displaying Shifinagh fonts in webpages. Greeting #1 is not styled, so it does not appear in a special font. Rather it will be rendered by your browser with some standard Unicode font already installed
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In the Tawallammat Tamajaq language (ttq) the word šifinaɣ generally refers to the Tamajaq script. It is the writing system for the Tamajaq alphabet, punctuation markers, spacing conventions, and various typographical ligatures (combined letters). The Tamajaq word šifinaɣ is transliterated into English as Shifinagh.
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One of the most famous parts of the Tuareg homelands is the Ténéré desert. But the Ténéré wasn’t always desert. An abundance of fossil evidence points to a time in which the Sahara was not a desert, but green and full of various plant and animal life including aquatic life. But this is not news
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It is clear that both Nigeria and Niger get their names from the Niger River that flows through them. But what is not so clear how the river got its name. Some speculate that the name has its origin in the Latin word nigreos for black, others claim that the river’s name is rooted
Tamashek is the name given to the macrolanguage comprised of the four closely related languages spoken by the various Tuareg peoples. More particularly, it is the name for the macrolanguage specified by the ISO-639-2 and ISO-639-3 standard code tmh. You could say without reservation that Tamashek is the language of the Tuareg people. However, you could also very