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BerberAny member of a community native to the Maghrib who speaks one of various Berber languages, including Tamazight, Tashahit, and Tarifit. Berber-speakers were the original inhabitants of North Africa, though many regions succumbed to colonization by the Roman Republic and Empire and later (from the 7th century AD) to conquest by the Arabs. Berbers gradually accepted Islam, and many switched to Arabic or became bilingual. Berber languages are still spoken in some rural and mountain areas of Morocco and Algeria and by some inhabitants of Tunisia and Libya. Since the 1990s Berber intellectuals have sought to revive interest in the language. The Berber-speaking Almoravid and Almohad dynasties built empires in North Africa and Spain in the 11th–13th centuries. See also Abd el-Krim; Kabyle; Rif. Berber 1. a member of a Caucasoid Muslim people of N Africa 2. the language of this people, forming a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. There are extensive differences between dialects How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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African Masks and Handicrafts, Berber Jewelry, Akan Goldweights, Bamum Drawings and Writing Musee d'Ethnographie, Geneva, Switzerland The bullet came from a hunting rifle newly acquired by a family of Berber herders. But for me, Ewondo, Tikar, Bamileke of Cameroon, Mende, Kru and Temne of Sierra Leone and Liberia, Ga of Ghana, Yoruba of Nigeria, Berber of Morocco and Pakistani, are a select sampling of my ancestral ethnicities that have influenced the heritage I own. |
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