Ancient Berber script revived

The BBC reported today that the Amazighs of Morocco are being taught to read their ancient Berber language. Although the language has been around in spoken form for hundreds of years, ever since Arabic culture took over Morocco seven hundred years ago, and was originally written using a script devised at the same time as Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

The BBC report says "Berber is one of the oldest languages in the world - some historians place it at 5,000 years old. It was spoken across a huge swathe of North Africa before the Arabs came". And "To resurrect the writing means bringing back an ancient script called Tifinagh, which originated around the same time as Egyptian hieroglyphics".

The script, called Tifinagh, apparently died out due to the demise of the Amazigh elite when the Arabs took over. This site has further information. It looks like this: