Ethnic group indigenous to North Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berbers, or the Berber peoples,[a] also known as Amazigh[b] or Imazighen,[c] are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Maghreb.[38][39][40][41] Their main connections are identified by their usage of Berber languages, most of them mutually unintelligible,[40][42] which are part of the Afroasiatic language family.
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| Total population | |
| 25 million[1] to 36 million[2][3][4][5] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Morocco | 14 million[9] to 15 million[14] |
| Algeria | 7 million[15] to 13 million[16][17] |
| Niger | 2.6 million[18] |
| France | 2 million[19] |
| Mali | 850,000[20] |
| Libya | 600,000[21] |
| Belgium | 500,000[22] |
| Netherlands | 467,455[citation needed] |
| Burkina Faso | 406,271[23] |
| Tunisia | 100,000[24] |
| Canada | 37,060[25] |
| Egypt | 30,000[26] |
| Mauritania | 10,000[27] |
| Norway | 4,500[citation needed] |
| Israel | 3,500[28] |
| United States | 1,325[29] |
| Languages | |
| Berber languages (Tamazight) and Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Sunni Islam Minorities Ibadi Islam, Shia Islam and, Christianity (chiefly Catholicism),[30][31] Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Arabs and other Afro-Asiatic speaking Mediterranean peoples[32][33][34][35][36][37] | |
They are indigenous to the Maghreb region of North Africa, where they live in scattered communities across parts of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and to a lesser extent Tunisia, Mauritania, northern Mali and northern Niger.
