U+2D51 "ⵑ" Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⵑ
U+2D51 "ⵑ" Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yang is part of the Tifinagh script block, used specifically for writing the Tuareg languages, primarily spoken across the Sahara region in countries like Mali, Niger, Algeria, and Libya. This character represents a consonantal sound, typically the voiced velar nasal /ŋ/ (as in "sing"), which is common in Tuareg dialects but absent in many other Berber languages that use the standard Tifinagh alphabet. Its name "Yang" distinguishes it from other similar letters, reflecting its role in accurately transcribing the unique phonetic inventory of Tuareg speech, and it is one of the characters added or modified in the Neo-Tifinagh standard to better accommodate regional linguistic needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2D51 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yang |
| Block | Tifinagh |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⵑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⵑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB5 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2D51 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002D51 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2d51 |