Berber in Taroudant
Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are discontinuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke various Berber languages, which together form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Today Arabic is spoken almost universally by Berbers, along with Darija, as well as French (in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria) and some Spanish (in Western Sahara and parts of Morocco), due to European colonisation of the Maghreb. Today most Berber-speaking people live in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mali and Niger. Many Berbers call themselves some variant of the word Imazighen (singular: Amazigh), possibly meaning "free people" or "free and noble men"(the word has probably an ancient parallel in the Roman name for some of the Berbers, "Mazices").
The best known of the ancient Berbers were the Numidian king Masinissa, the Roman author Apuleius, Saint Augustine of Hippo, and the Roman general Lusius Quietus, who was instrumental in defeating the major Jewish revolt of 115–117. Famous Berbers of the Middle Ages included Tariq ibn Ziyad, a general who conquered Hispania; Abbas Ibn Firnas, a prolific inventor and early pioneer in aviation; Ibn Battuta, a medieval explorer who traveled the longest known distances in pre-modern times (From Wikipedia)
I Berberi o, nella loro stessa lingua, Amazigh (plurale Imazighen, il nome significherebbe in origine "uomini liberi")[2], propriamente sono gli abitanti autoctoni del Nordafrica. Per una serie di motivi storici e ideologici oggi tale nome è solitamente riservato solo a quanti, in Nordafrica, parlano ancora la lingua berbera (tamazight). Il nome berbero deriva dal francese berbère, che a sua volta riproduce la parola araba barbar, che probabilmente non fa che continuare la parola greco-romana barbaro (che designava chi non parlava il latino o il greco). (Da Wikipedia)
Berber in Taroudant
Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are discontinuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke various Berber languages, which together form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Today Arabic is spoken almost universally by Berbers, along with Darija, as well as French (in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria) and some Spanish (in Western Sahara and parts of Morocco), due to European colonisation of the Maghreb. Today most Berber-speaking people live in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mali and Niger. Many Berbers call themselves some variant of the word Imazighen (singular: Amazigh), possibly meaning "free people" or "free and noble men"(the word has probably an ancient parallel in the Roman name for some of the Berbers, "Mazices").
The best known of the ancient Berbers were the Numidian king Masinissa, the Roman author Apuleius, Saint Augustine of Hippo, and the Roman general Lusius Quietus, who was instrumental in defeating the major Jewish revolt of 115–117. Famous Berbers of the Middle Ages included Tariq ibn Ziyad, a general who conquered Hispania; Abbas Ibn Firnas, a prolific inventor and early pioneer in aviation; Ibn Battuta, a medieval explorer who traveled the longest known distances in pre-modern times (From Wikipedia)
I Berberi o, nella loro stessa lingua, Amazigh (plurale Imazighen, il nome significherebbe in origine "uomini liberi")[2], propriamente sono gli abitanti autoctoni del Nordafrica. Per una serie di motivi storici e ideologici oggi tale nome è solitamente riservato solo a quanti, in Nordafrica, parlano ancora la lingua berbera (tamazight). Il nome berbero deriva dal francese berbère, che a sua volta riproduce la parola araba barbar, che probabilmente non fa che continuare la parola greco-romana barbaro (che designava chi non parlava il latino o il greco). (Da Wikipedia)