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=== Modern use === Due to the official adoption of Neo-Tifinagh in Morocco in 2003, the script has been adapted by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture for modern digital use.<ref name=":4"/><ref name=":8"/> Government websites in Morocco may be displayed in Neo-Tifinagh.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-17 |title=β΄°β΄·β΅β΅β΅β΅β΅ |url=https://www.maroc.ma/amz/node/93100 |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=Maroc.ma |archive-date=2022-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220013208/https://www.maroc.ma/amz/node/93100 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":18">{{cite web |url= http://www.ircam.ma/amz/index.php?soc=publi |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080421063850/http://www.ircam.ma/amz/index.php?soc=publi |url-status= dead |archive-date= April 21, 2008 |title= Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe |publisher= Ircam.ma |access-date= 2015-07-14 }}</ref> Starting in 2003, Neo-Tifinagh was used for a small duration of [[Morocco|Moroccan]] elementary school to teach Standard Moroccan Amazigh.<ref name=":8"/><ref name=":9">{{Cite book |last=Maddy-Weitzman |first=Bruce |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741751261 |title=The Berber identity movement and the challenge to North African states |date=2011 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-73478-4 |edition=1st |location=Austin |pages=171β172 |oclc=741751261}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Maddy-Weitzman |first=Bruce |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741751261 |title=The Berber identity movement and the challenge to North African states |date=2011 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-73478-4 |edition=1st |location=Austin |pages=193β195 |oclc=741751261}}</ref> However, practical use of Tifinagh in Morocco remains rare; one Amazigh activist has summarized the situation with the anecdote that he "[knows] that some books that were written in Tifinagh were read by only two people ... the one who wrote the book and the one who did the editing!"<ref name=":8"/> Public displays of Tifinagh in Morocco remains restricted primarily to signage and other culturally conspicuous uses.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 4, 2016 |title=Morocco draft law on official use of Berber language scrutinised |work=BBC Monitoring Middle East}}</ref> Despite Neo-Tifinagh's Algerian origins through the Berber Academy and UPA, the Latin alphabet became the predominant used script. Debate in what script to use for Berber languages tends to view the Latin and Arabic scripts as the primary options.<ref name=":5"/> As of 2012, Tifinagh is "not widely used in education or the media in any country."<ref name=":7"/>
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