Wondering how to use Berber in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as muslim or afrasian.
Berber in a sentence
Related words
Berber meaning
- A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to Western North Africa.
- A kind of traditional rug manufactured by the Berber people.
Synonyms of Berber
Using Berber
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to Western North Africa. | A kind of traditional rug manufactured by the Berber people.
- Useful related words include: muslim, afrasian language, afrasian, afroasiatic language.
- In the example corpus, berber often appears in combinations such as: the berber, of berber, berber languages.
Context around Berber
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Berber
- In this selection, "berber" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pure, word, now, speaking, latin and language stand out and add context to how "berber" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a female berber religious and and a fierce berber resistance against. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "berber" sits close to words such as acosta, afar and anterior, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with berber
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They are Hassaniya -speaking or Berber -speaking tribes of Berber origin. (11 words)
However, many independent Berber-language publications are still published using the Berber Latin alphabet. (14 words)
Tifinagh, Berber-Arabic and Berber-Latin alphabets are being increasingly used in Morocco and Algeria. (15 words)
Many Berber linguists prefer to consider the term "Tamazight" as a pure Berber word to be used only in Berber text; while using the European word "Berber/ Berbero/ Berbère" in European texts to follow the traditions of European writings about the Berbers. (42 words)
Many of them have mixed Berber-Arab heritage, effectively continuations of the tribal groupings of Hassaniya-speaking and Zenaga-Berber speaking Moorish tribes extending south into Mauritania and north into Morocco as well as east into Algeria. (37 words)
D. W. Roller, The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene (2003) at 265. By way of Berber informants and Punic translators, Sallust had used these surviving books to write his brief sketch of Berber affairs. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Many Berber linguists prefer to consider the term "Tamazight" as a pure Berber word to be used only in Berber text; while using the European word "Berber/ Berbero/ Berbère" in European texts to follow the traditions of European writings about the Berbers.
A Berberist flag Now, Berber is a "national" language in Algeria and is taught in some Berber-speaking areas as a noncompulsory language.
Algerians mostly use the Neo-Tifinagh or Berber Arabic alphabet, with the Berber Latin alphabet being taught at schools.
Around 90 percent of the Berber-speaking population speak one of six major varieties of Berber, each with at least two million speakers.
Dihya or Kahina was a female Berber religious and military leader who led a fierce Berber resistance against the Arab-Muslim expansion in North-West Africa.
D. W. Roller, The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene (2003) at 265. By way of Berber informants and Punic translators, Sallust had used these surviving books to write his brief sketch of Berber affairs.
However, many independent Berber-language publications are still published using the Berber Latin alphabet.
It is not clear, however, whether he means "speakers of Berber languages" or "people of Berber descent".
Many of them have mixed Berber-Arab heritage, effectively continuations of the tribal groupings of Hassaniya-speaking and Zenaga-Berber speaking Moorish tribes extending south into Mauritania and north into Morocco as well as east into Algeria.
Shilha, Tamazight) * Tuareg * Western Berber languages ( Zenaga ) The various classifications differ primarily in what they consider to be Eastern Berber, and in how many varieties they recognize as distinct languages.
Since modern Berber languages are relatively homogeneous, the date of the Proto-Berber language from which the modern group is derived was probably comparatively recent, comparable to the age of the Germanic or Romance subfamilies.
Some other Berber writers, especially in Morocco, prefer to refer to Berber with "Amazigh" when writing about it in French or English.
The Berber Latin alphabet was also used by most European and Berber linguists during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Factbook explains that of the approximately 15% who identify as Berber, most live in the Kabylie region, more closely identify with Berber heritage instead of Arab heritage, and are Muslim.
The unifying forces for the Berber people may be their shared language, or a collective identification with the Berber heritage and history.
They are Hassaniya -speaking or Berber -speaking tribes of Berber origin.
This harmony was short-lived; Arabian and Berber forces controlled the region in turn until 697. By 711, Umayyad forces helped by Berber converts to Islam had conquered all of North Africa.
Tifinagh, Berber-Arabic and Berber-Latin alphabets are being increasingly used in Morocco and Algeria.
They speak Tamazight, as the Berber language is also called, but often also Arabic, the language that the Muslims brought along with Islam who conquered North Africa in the seventh century.
Guests can also arrange for a private day trip to the Atlas Mountains, visiting Berber villages where time seems to have stood still.
Common combinations with berber
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: