id lif

Tashelhit

Etymology

From id + lif, literally “the alifs”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /id lif/

Noun

id lif pl (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⴷ ⵍⵉⴼ, Arabic spelling ايد ليف)

1. alphabet

   Synonyms: lḥruf ugmmay, lifbita

   ژر منشك يهيّا يد ليف ن لّيبيكو.

   ẓr mnck ihyya id lif n llibiku.

   look at how good the Libyco-Berber alphabet is.

Related terms

• agmmay (“spelling”)
• amḥas (“vowel”)
• gmi (“to spell”)
• lḥrf (“letter”)

References

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 F–L (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1407a