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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] Clyde, people in North Africa who are not Arab are generally called berber. Therefore if the Garamante did not speak berber some of the the descendants of the Garamante might speak berber or Arabic today and have ancestry from the Garamantes. This is possible. You think they just disappeared off the face of the earth? A population sometimes adopts new languages [/qb][/QUOTE]No. They are suppose to have migrated to the Niger Delta region . [/qb][/QUOTE]Sanhaja Berbers played a prominent role in the spread of Islam in the Niger Delta region. The Sanhaja or Senhaja (also Zenaga, Znaga or Sanhadja; were once one of the largest Berber tribal confederations of the Maghreb, along with the Zanata and Masmuda.After the arrival of Islam they also spread out to the borders of the historic Sudan as far as the Senegal River and the [b]Niger.[/b] From the 9th century Sanhaja tribes were established in the Middle Atlas range, in the Rif Mountains and on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. A part of the Sanhaja were settled in central/eastern Algeria and northern [b]Niger[/b] such as the Kutama, and played an important part in the rise of the Fatimids. The Sanhaja dynasties of the Zirids and Hammadids controlled Ifriqiya until the 12th century. The descendents of the Sanhaja are found today in the Middle-Atlas and eastern Morocco, the Tuaregs Kutama in northern Niger and Mali[citation needed] across the Sahara, in addition to the Kutama of Kabylie in Algeria (Ketama) -wiki [IMG]http://www.livius.org/a/libya/zliten/dar_buc_ammera_gladiators_tripoli_mus06.JPG[/IMG] Tuareg woman of Niger [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-40-10.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-40-10.png[/IMG][/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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