Iles d Imesli
Volume 17, Numéro 1, Pages 93-102
2025-12-31
An Approach For Transliterating Tifinagh Berber Texts Into Latin And Arabic Alphabets
Authors : Albane Saadia . Slimani Hachem . Kheddouci Hamamache .
Abstract
In this paper, we study the problem of recognition of the Tifinagh Berber characters through transliterating texts written in Tifinagh into alphabets of other languages. In this setting, we propose an algorithm which transliterates an entry paragraph written in Tifinagh characters into the Latin and Arabic alphabets. More specifically, the proposed approach is applied to globally perform the transliteration of each letter of each word of the paragraph in input using the concept of matching (that is a process which aims to identify and discover semantic correspondences between different data formats such as schemas, ontologies, web interfaces, etc.) while respecting the order of the letters (words, sentences) in relation to the original paragraph. In this context, the proposed algorithm performs the two transliterations in relatively different ways. In fact, for the transliteration from Tifinagh characters to Latin alphabet, the algorithm works in a simple and easy way by matching each character in the Tifinagh alphabet to exactly its correspondent letter in the Latin alphabet. However, due to the specificity of the phonological and especially writing systems of the Arabic language, the transliteration from Tifinagh characters to Arabic alphabet is not done in a completely linear way as for Latin. Thus, to cope with this, the algorithm uses some measures/rules that take into consideration of some specificities related mainely to the position of the vowels in each word constituting the paragraph to transliterate so that to improve the result of the translit- eration into Arabic. Besides, this algorithm has the ability to recognize punctuation and take it into consideration during transliteration. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm by testing it on a set of different popular sentences and proverbs written in Tifinagh alphabet. The obtained results have shown that our algorithm has a success rate of 100% for the transliteration from Tifinagh into Latin and a success rate of 95.46% for the transliteration from Tifinagh into Arabic.
Keywords
Tifinagh Berber characters, Latin alphabet, Arabic alphabet, Matching, Transliteration.
Les articles similaires
Meziani Noumidya
.
pages 306-325.
ساحلي أسيا
.
ص 411-428.
Fayer Svetlana
.
pages 16-31.
سميشـــــة فـــايزة
.
ص 303-315.
Haddad Mohand
.
pages 42-72.
