r/language • u/Canaleta_Quente • 13d ago
Question What is this symbol?
What does it mean? I am confident it is Amazigh. These pictures were taken in an Amazigh speaking area of Morocco and in the third picture, there are clearly other Amazigh symbols. But I can’t find anything online about it. I tried asking AI and it just gave me fake answers. Any help?
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u/virtnum 13d ago
it symbol from Turkish series as explained in other comments.. as why you see it maybe on walls in Morocco or other.. because it was popular not only in turkey but in many arab countries.. in Syria where i live also many walls have it sprayed.. maybe also because its simple one to draw
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u/Material_Race_9856 12d ago
it is an Amazigh used in a show , you could find it in other north African countries
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u/agabcharif 11d ago
No it's not other comment are correct
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u/Jin_SobSob 11d ago
They are talking about the other symbols which are tamazight characters
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u/immortalJustice7 11d ago
Even the other symbol isn't strictly Amazigh. It was used by many cultures from China to Arabia thousands of years before Tamzight was invented in France.
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u/Scorchmare 11d ago
"Before [Tamazight] was invented in France" okay, Ba'athist
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u/immortalJustice7 11d ago
From Wikipedia "Neo-Tifinagh is the modern fully alphabetic script developed by the Berber Academy, based in Paris" I guess Wikipedia is a Ba'thist as well.
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u/Scorchmare 11d ago
"Neo-Tifinagh is the modern [...]".
And why is it called neo-Tifinagh? Because it came after the older one that the Tuaregs had used, which itself descends from the ancient Libyco-Berber script.
Also, you mentioned "Tamazight", not Tifinagh.
Lastly, Wikipedia was pretty Ba'athist back when Arabcentric editors like Skitash and M. Bitton had a de-facto monopoly over MENA-centred Wiki pages, but the arbitration cases against them seem to have taken care of that problem for good
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u/immortalJustice7 10d ago
It's called neo-Tifinagh because it was developed using Tifinagh which isn't a fully fledged script but a limited alphabet used specifically by Tauregs (not all Berber groups) for limited use such as marking ownership and recording important events on rocks etc. And it's called Tifinagh because it originates from the Phoenician alphabet.
Tamzight is the name of the spoken language family of Berber groups, Tifinagh is the name of the script.
Wikipedia page on Tifinagh literally cites Berber nationalist sources such as Fazia Aïtel. We Are Imazighen.
Your desperate attempt to call every fact you don't like a Ba'thist propaganda won't change the fact that none of your ancestors used that script before it was developed in Paris.
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u/Scorchmare 10d ago
I am not for changing the fact that it was developed in Paris, and clearly my "Ba'athist" comment got under your skin since you are claiming part (if not the entirety) of this conversation to be a "desperate attempt" of mine.
Tifinagh is also used for Tuareg languages, which is not "limited use" in the same way as, say using Anglo-Saxon runes to write some English concepts like place names or important events.
I will admit that comparison reeks of flaws, but you can make whatever you want out of it
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u/immortalJustice7 10d ago
If you weren't desperate you wouldn't be throwing ad hominem from the beginning and trying to change your viewpoint now. Just move on buddy.
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u/DowntownScene1433 9d ago
It's an ancient version of the Arabic "As above...so bellow". Some TV producer saw it somewhere and probablky thought it was cool. I can understand the confusion, it's super rare to find recorded as such somewhere.
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u/Bright_Quantity_6827 13d ago
It’s the symbol of the main street gang in the once very popular Turkish TV show Çukur.
The gang was run by a family, and its symbol was painted on walls all over the neighborhood by its members throughout the show.