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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb] Clyde, Berber languages originated among East African populations 3-5,000 years ago. These were all black African people. The languages were spread to North Africa by migratory nomadic groups who settled in various parts of the Sahara, Western Egypt and Northern Sudan and eventually into coastal North Africa. All the evidence speaks to this. The origin of Berber [b]languages[/b] have absolutely nothing to do with Europe and everything to do with Africa and black Africans. The primary impact of these population movements were in language and culture, because the people themselves were relatively small in number because the areas that they inhabited and migrated through were some of the driest and hottest in the region. Later migrations of Europeans and others mixed with these folks to form the coastal Berber speaking populations that we see today and many of these later arrivals blended their cultures and languages with that of the Africans. That does not make Berber a European language or affiliated with Europeans. It is not. Ge'ez Ethiopia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1H7A0zxtZc Ahmaric music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDLWzvPQ2Ko Ethiopian T.V. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liBGlV4CAQo [/qb][/QUOTE]The Berber languages did not originate in East Africa. The Berber languages are related to Arabic--not Ge'ez etc. The Berber languages are of Indo-European origin. [QUOTE] http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/july/berber.html Introduction The Berber, or Amazigh, people live in Northern Africa throughout the Mediterranean coast, the Sahara desert and Sahel which used to be a Berber world before the arrival of Arabs. Today, there are large groups of Berber people in Morocco and Algeria, important communitites in Mali, Niger and Libya, and smaller groups in Tunis, Mauritania, Burkina-Faso and Egypt. The Tuareg of the desert also belong to the Berber group. The Berber people speak 26 closely related languages. Consonants Berber consonants include: glottalized consonants, so called because the space between the vocal cords (glottis) is constricted during their pronunciation; implosive consonants produced with the air sucked inward; ejective consonants produced with the air "ejected" or forced out; geminate (doubled) consonants produced by holding them in position longer than for their single counterparts. Click here to listen to a Berber song recorded in Morocco. Grammar Noun phrase Berber nouns have two cases. One case is used for the subject of intransitive verbs, while the other is used for the subject of transitive verbs and objects of prepositions. There are two genders: masculine and feminine. The plural of nouns has a masculine and a feminine form. Verb phrase Verbs are marked for tense and aspect. The perfective of the verb is formed by reduplication of the second consonant of the root, or by the prefix -tt-. Vocabulary Most of the vocabulary is Berber in origin with borrowings from Latin, Arabic, French, Spanish, and other sub-Saharan languages. There is generally little or no intelligibility between the dialects. [/QUOTE]The Berber languages as pointed out by numerous authors is full of vocabulary from other languages. Many Berbers may be descendants of the Vandels (Germanic) speaking people who ruled North Africa and Spain for 400 years. Commenting on this reality Diop in [b] The African Origin of Civilization[/b] noted that:[b] “Careful search reveals that German feminine nouns end in t and st. Should we consider that Berbers were influenced by Germans or the referse? This hypothesis could not be rejected a priori, for German tribes in the fifth century overran North Africa vi Spain, and established an empire that they ruled for 400 years….Furthermore, the plural of 50 percent of Berber nouns is formed by adding en, as is the case with feminine nouns in German, while 40 percent form their plural in a, like neuter nouns in Latin. Since we know the Vandals conquered the country from the Romans, why should we not be more inclined to seek explanations for the Berbers in the direction, both linguistically and in physical appearance: blond hair, blue eyes, etc? But no! Disregarding all these facts, historians decree that there was no Vandal influence and that it would be impossible to attribute anything in Barbary to their occupation” (p.69). [/b] The influence of European languages on the Berber languages and the grammar of the Berber languages indicate that the Berbers are probably of European, especially Vandal origin. . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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