Amazigh Language Desktop Converter

Before the creation of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, the Amazigh language has not have the ability to take the advantages of information and communication technologies, even to be written in its native writing system "Tifinaghe". To overcome these limitations, the Amazigh language has undergone a process of standardization and integration into information and communication technologies. This process is passing through several stages, mainly the encoding stage and the development of appropriate standards for the keyboard layout, in addition to the stage of computational linguistics. In this context and in the aim to save the Amazigh cultural heritage, a desktop converter, allowing the ANSIUnicode transition and Arabic-Latin-Tifinaghe transliteration, is developed. Keywords—Amazigh langauge; transcoding; transliteration; ANSI; Unicode; Tifinaghe; Arabic and Latin scripts .