The berbers or also know as amazigh "free people" name that they prefer to be called, are a vast and diverse group of people who are natives of North Africa.
From Egypt to Morroco and presents in the south in Mali and Niger, their population are arround 38-50 million people.
The most famous groups among them are the riffians, tuaregs, kabile , zenata and sanhaja, having their language called amazigh/tamazigh with is dialects and also with its alphabet and scripture called tifinag.
They have a long history of resistance and fight against people who try to conquer and dominate them, from egyptians, greeks, romans, arabs , turks, frenchs etc. Also they have a history as conquerors and empire builders, since they are one of the modern descendants of the medieval moors.
Still their fight today is the preservation of their culture and language, because despite the fact that the vast majority of the inhabitants of North Africa have Amazigh origins, they have been culturally and linguistically Arabized, especially in post-colonial times and with the rise of Arab nationalism, something that led many people to identify themselves as Arabs before what else, despite the fact that ethnic Arabs are ironically a minority.
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