Berber

Berber comes from the Arabic word al barbar البربر, which comes from the onomatopoeia Bar-Bar, used by Greeks as Bla-Bla to describe other languages. Bar-Bar was adopted by the Arabic speakers to refer to the original inhabitants of N. Africa, west and south of Egypt^[1] as a non civilized population. Nowadays the word Berber is used to refer to the Amazigh by the western societies.

applied by the Arab geographers from ancient times to the original inhabitants of N. Africa, west and south of Egypt

Berber may refer to:

• a member of the Berber people
  • the Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
  • Berberism, a political-cultural term supporting a distinct Berber identity
  • Berber calendar
  • Berber cuisine
  • Berber Jews and the Judeo-Berber language
  • Berber music
  • Berber mythology
  • Berber pantheon
  • Berber Revolt in 740-43 AD
  • Berber (etymology), the etymology of the word
• Berbere, a spice mixture from Ethiopia
• Bilad-ul-Barbar, the medieval name of Somalia
• Berber Spring was a period of political protest in Algeria
• Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
• Berber Toad, a species of toad found in Algeria
• Berber carpet, a type of carpet

People

• Ady Berber (1913–1966), Austrian film actor
• Anita Berber, German dancer, actress, writer, and prostitute
• Mersad Berber, Bosnian painter

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