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Berbers are not an entirely homogeneous ethnicity, and they include a range of societies, ancestries, and lifestyles. The unifying forces for the Berber people may be their shared language or a collective identification with Berber heritage and history. As a legacy of the spread of Islam, the Berbers are now mostly Sunni Muslim.
Following a period of Islamization, the highly-influential Arab mediaeval writer Ibn Khaldun considered "Berbers" to be their own "race" or "great nation." This idea fell out of use as indigenous North Africans were increasingly marginalized, but was revived by French colonists in the nineteenth century in hopes of dividing the population.
The Berber minority who make up between 15% [17] and 20% [18] [19] [20] to 24% [21] [22] [23] of the population are divided into many groups with varying languages. The largest Berber group in Algeria is the Kabyle people, who are concentrated in the Kabylia region of the country. The Berbers of Algeria have a long and complex history, dating ...
Hamitic (Berber, Cushitic) + Semitic (Ethiopian, Arabic) ... (10 million people or more): Major ethnic groups Region Countries Language family Pop. (millions)
The Kabyle people (/ k ə ˈ b aɪ l /, Kabyle: Izwawen or Leqbayel or Iqbayliyen, pronounced [iqβæjlijən], Arabic: القبائل, romanized: al-qabā'il) [12] [13] are a Berber ethnic group indigenous to Kabylia in the north of Algeria, spread across the Atlas Mountains, 160 kilometres (100 mi) east of Algiers.
As in other rural Berber traditions, jewellery made of silver, coloured glass or iron is a special artform of the Tuareg people. [ 109 ] [ 110 ] While in other Berber cultures in the Maghreb jewelry is mainly worn by women, Tuareg men also wear necklaces, amulets and rings.
Berber Americans, American Berbers, or Amazigh Americans, are Americans of Berber (or Amazigh) descent. Although a part of the population of the Maghreb (in the North Africa) is of Berber descent, only 1,327 people declared Berber ancestry in the 2000 US census .
The Berber flag adopted by the World Amazigh Congress in 1998 Demonstration of Kabyles in Paris, April 2016. Berberism is a Berber ethnonationalist movement, that started mainly in Kabylia and Morocco during the French colonial era with the Kabyle myth and was largely driven by colonial capitalism and France's divide and conquer policy. [1]