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From: Jay Spaulding
List Editor: Kathryn Green <kgreen@csusb.edu>
Editor's Subject: Libyan Tmazight language: reply
Author's Subject: Libyan Tmazight language: reply
Date Written: Mon, 08 Jan 2001
Date Posted: Tue, 08 Jan 2001 18:17:00 -0500

            Kean University
            <jspauldi@cougar.kean.edu>

I was interested in your question about how Temashek was written
in the
past. You might enjoy the old home-grown Tuareg system, called
tifinagh; it can be found in the Encyclopaedia of Islam for example.
It has not been common, certainly, to write any "Berber" language in
Arabic characters, though perhaps not totally unknown.
I do not know the policy of the current Libyan government, but
no doubt
others will.

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