berber

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1. berber - Noun

2. berber - Adjective

3. Berber - Proper noun

Meaning

A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

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The noble Moor of Spain is anything but a pure Arab of the desert, he is half a Berber (from the Aryan family) and his veins are so full of Gothic blood that even at the present day noble inhabitants of Morocco can trace their descent back to Teutonic ancestors. Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Abdallah ibn Yasin was a Gazzula Berber, and probably a convert rather than a born Muslim. Source: Internet

Accordingly, the long and continuous interactions between Punic citizens of Carthage and the Berber communities that surrounded the city have no local historian. Source: Internet

According to the Ethnologue, citation more recent estimates include 14 percent (corresponding to the total figures it gives for each Berber language added together, 4 million) and (by deduction from its Algerian Arabic figures) 29 percent (Hunter 1996). Source: Internet

A Berberist flag Now, Berber is a "national" language in Algeria and is taught in some Berber-speaking areas as a noncompulsory language. Source: Internet

According to his classification, Boreafrasian consists of Egyptian, Berber, and Semitic. Source: Internet

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