(n.) A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gene frequencies obtained among the Berbers are different from the the values observed among the other Tunisians.
(2) The combined data, considered in the light of sociological, historical and paleontological data, support the hypothesis that the Berbers are native to North Africa and their ancestors, the first modern man (Homo sapiens) of North Africa, were the founders of the European populations.
(3) The Kelts may have a similar origin but they might include the Berbers of ancient Iberia as a third component.
(4) Likewise, other comparisons are made with populations from Africa, Europe and Asia, since Tunisians are a mixture of Berbers, invaders and immigrants from different origins.
(5) A t the end of the long day's walk under the searing Moroccan sun, across endless expanses of sand, the Berbers slowed their camel and stopped.
(6) Essebsi has dismissed the word “taghaoul” (power grab) that the Marzouki camp has deployed, evoking the ogre (“ghoul”) of north African Berber and Arab legend.
(7) But they failed to take account of the most essential consideration: the nature of the Arab-Berber world.
(8) The deficient subjects originated from multiple geographic regions of Northern Algeria, with prevalence of individuals of Berber-Kabyle origin.
(9) The front lines – in the east, around Misrata and in the Berber-populated mountains south of Tripoli – ripple like the edges of a carpet under which dogs are fighting.
(10) DNA polymorphisms in the human immunoglobulin gamma (gamma) region have been studied in random Arabo-Berber Tunisians and in a large Tunisian Berber kindred.
(11) It was then the intention to get off the tourist tracks and to experience life among the Berber tribes, and to trek part of the high Atlas range.
(12) After the final dinner, we gathered around a campfire to listen to drumming and singing by professional Berber musicians.
(13) The 33-year-old law graduate, who asked to be known simply as “Hajj” – an honorific generally used by people who have completed the pilgrimage to Mecca – said the EU would be better off investing in local infrastructure for the long-marginalised Amazigh minority , the Berber tribe whose members run the smuggling networks in Zuwara.
(14) This was the joy of the week I spent on a new "nomadic beach retreat", walking a stretch of coastline between Essaouira and Agadir with a tribe of Tuareg Berbers.
(15) Despite the presence of some African admixture, the gene pool of the Berbers from Tunisia shows large homologies with Middle Eastern groups rather than similarities with North African populations.
(16) Blood samples from 120 Tunisian Berbers of Gallala village were typed for Gm and Km immunoglobulin allotypes, alpha-1-antitrypsin variants and AB0 blood groups.
(17) But then came a wave of local Berber rebellions, and the rise of a regional al-Qaida franchise .
(18) The data collected show that the actual Berber community is genetically heterogeneous.
(19) Others listed on the official line up include Seun Kuti (youngest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti) with Egypt 80, and Toumani and Sidiki Diabat, who will play on the Pyramid on Sunday and Tinariwen , a group of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali.
(20) The polymorphism of serum proteins (Hp, Tf, Gc, C3 and BF) was determined on 210 samples belonging to Berber groups living in three regions of Tunisian.
Numidian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa.