The Beria Erfe script is built around a sampling of the traditional animal brands seen on livestock, rocks of the desert, and in caves of North Darfur and eastern Chad. During the early development of the script over 300 symbols were identified which were used to distinguish between families’ animals and properties. Those were then distilled down to the current character set to represent the sounds of the language.
The script is sometimes called “Beria Giray Erfe” (Beria for the language name, Giray meaning “writing”, and Erfe meaning “brand”).
This Beria Erfe font is named Kedebideri which means “Let’s write!” in the Zaghawa Beria language.
This font is a major revision of an older SIL font updated to support the script now encoded in Unicode 17.0.
