- ISO 15924
Qa45- Family
- African
- Type
- alphabet
- Direction
- vertical (LTR) and horizontal (RTL)
- Baseline
- vertical
- Word separation
- unspecified
- Ligatures
- unspecified
- Status
- Historical
- Unicode
- true
The Numidian script was an alphabet used for writing the Berber dialect of the same name in the second century BC. It is thought to have derived from the Phoenician abjad.
The Numidian script resembles the Tifinagh script currently employed by the Tuareg, the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior. However, Tifinagh is written horizontally and Numidian was normally written from bottom to top, in columns from left to right. In some bilingual Numidian and Phoenician inscriptions, the Numidian parts were written from right to left horizontally in the Phoenician manner.
This script is not currently recognized by the ISO 15924 standard, but is included in ScriptSource for research purposes. If you have any information on this script, please add the information to this site. Your contributions can be a great help in refining and expanding the ISO 15924 standard. The Script Encoding Initiative is working to support the inclusion of this script in the standard, and contributions here will support their efforts.