Berber orthography modern printed works is the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) standard, designed for phonemicity. Older systems from the colonial French era are still found in place names and personal names. The older colonial system showed marked influence from French, for instance writing as and as , and was inconsistent in marking many Berber sounds, for instance writing as a circumflex over the vowel, and often leaving emphatics unmarked. The Tifinagh script is the traditional script for written Berber; but Latin Script remains the predominant orthography for Berber literature for the general public in North Africa. Some Tamazight
Berber, Sudan inhabiting this city are mainly Ja'Alin with fewer numbers of Ababda. English explorer Samuel Baker passed in Berber on his discovery of Albert Nyanza Lake, in 1861. Berber is one of the first Sudanese towns that knew modern schooling. Many of the elder generation leaders were educated in Berber intermediate school. Amîr Tadj as Sirr in his book called "ard as Sudân" cited this city. Berber, Sudan Berber () is a town in the River Nile state of northern Sudan, 50 km north of Atbara, near the junction of the Atbara River and the Nile. The town was the starting-point