ⵓ

ⵓ U+2D53, ⵓ TIFINAGH LETTER YU ← ⵒ [U+2D52] Tifinagh ⵔ → [U+2D54]

Translingual

Pronunciation

• (letter name, Neo-Tifinagh): IPA^(key): /ju/
• (phoneme, Neo-Tifinagh): IPA^(key): /u/
• (letter name, Tuareg): IPA^(key): /jaw/
• (phoneme, Tuareg): IPA^(key): /u/, /w/

Letter

ⵓ (u, w)

1. A Tifinagh letter: the twenty-first letter of the basic Neo-Tifinagh alphabet.
2. A Tifinagh letter: a letter of the Tuareg alphabet.

Central Atlas Tamazight

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u/
  • (Ayt Ndhir) IPA^(key): [u]

Letter:

• IPA^(key): /ju/
  • (Ayt Ndhir) IPA^(key): [ju]

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from the Moroccan Amazigh letter ⵓ (u).

Letter

ⵓ • (u)

1. yu, a Tifinagh letter, the nineteenth of the basic Neo-Tifinagh alphabet.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Berber *ăw (“son of”). Cognate with Tuareg ăw, Numidian [script needed] (W).

Noun

ⵓ • (u) m (feminine equivalent ⵓⵍⵜ (ult))

1. son of
2. from (a place)

Moroccan Amazigh

Etymology

Learned borrowing from the Tuareg Tifinagh letter (w), from the Libyco-Berber letter , (w), from the Phoenician letter 𐤅 (w, “waw”). Doublet of ⵡ (w).

Noun

ⵓ (u)

1. yu, a Tifinagh letter, the nineteenth of the basic Neo-Tifinagh alphabet.

Descendants

• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴻ (e)

See also

• Neo-Tifinagh script letters: ⵉⵙⴽⴽⵉⵍⵏ (iskkiln): ⴰ, ⴱ, ⴳ, ⴷ, ⴹ, ⴻ, ⴼ, ⴽ, ⵀ, ⵃ, ⵄ, ⵅ, ⵇ, ⵉ, ⵊ, ⵍ, ⵎ, ⵏ, ⵓ, ⵔ, ⵕ, ⵖ, ⵙ, ⵚ, ⵛ, ⵜ, ⵟ, ⵡ, ⵢ, ⵣ, ⵥ ^[edit]

References

• “ⵓ”, in Dictionnaire général de la langue amazighe amazighe-français-arabe, online edition, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, 2022