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The ancestor of Tifinagh.
Also known as: Numidian script, Ancient Berber script
The script used across North Africa in antiquity, ancestral to the Tifinagh scripts.
Writes the ancient Libyan and Numidian languages of North Africa.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Frequently written vertically from the bottom upward, which is a direction almost no other script in this catalogue uses, and it is the documented ancestor of the Tifinagh recorded earlier in this sprint.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Geometric signs of lines, dots and circles cut into stone, written vertically upward in many inscriptions and horizontally in others.
The modern Tifinagh scripts descend from the ancient Libyco-Berber inscriptions.