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The Berber identity encompasses language, religion, and ethnicity, and is rooted in the entire history and geography of North Africa. Berbers are not an entirely homogeneous ethnicity, and they include a range of societies, ancestries, and lifestyles.
- 9 million to ~13 million
- 14 million to 18 million
- 2 million
- 2.6 million
Berber, any of the descendants of the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa. The Berbers live in scattered communities across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mali, Niger, and Mauritania. They speak various Amazigh languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family related to ancient Egyptian.
- Michael Brett
Dec 9, 2021 · Like the people indigenous to North Africa who had no choice but to develop ingenious methods of survival: the Berbers. Constrained by the Sahara Desert, the Berbers developed into one of the most unique cultures in human history.
Sep 27, 2016 · The Berbers have occupied North Africa, specifically the Maghreb, since the beginning of recorded history and until the Islamic conquests of the 8th century CE constituted the dominant ethnic group in the Saharan region.
Aug 1, 2017 · Berber people are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa, occupying regions stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. They speak the Berber languages which belong to the Afro-Asiatic language family.
- John Misachi
Apr 8, 2019 · Berbers in Northwest Africa. Today, of course, Berbers are associated with people indigenous to northwest Africa, not east Africa. One possible situation is that the northwestern Berbers were not the eastern "Barbars" at all, but instead were the people the Romans called Moors (Mauri or Maurus).
The Berbers (Imazighen, singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. Originally, Berber was a generic name given by the Romans to numerous heterogeneous ethnic groups that shared similar cultural, political, and economic practices.
