berber

Noun
  1. A member of an indigenous people of northern Africa (synset 109869725)
    is a type of: african - a native or inhabitant of Africa
    subtypes:
    • almoravid - a member of a Muslim dynasty of Berber warriors that flourished from 1049 to 1145 and that established political dominance over northwestern Africa and Spain
    • riff, riffian - a Berber living in northern Morocco
  2. A cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt;
    Now spoken mostly in Morocco (synset 107003204)
    is a type of: afrasian, afrasian language, afro-asiatic, afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, hamito-semitic - a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
    subtypes: tuareg - the dialect of Berber spoken by the Tuareg

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