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 now updated to support the script as provisionally assigned for addition to Unicode.
The Beria Erfe script has received provisional codepoint assignments by the Unicode Technical Committee. The script has not yet been formally accepted and approved for a future version of the Unicode Standard. The Kedebideri font is using the provisional codepoints, but those codepoints can always change. Should those codepoints change, this font would be re-released with the new encoding. Documents would then need converting to use the new codepoints.
