Definition of Berber in English:

Berber

noun ˈbəːbəˈbərbər

1A member of the indigenous people of North Africa, among whom are the nomadic Tuareg.
柏柏尔人（北非土著民族，包括游牧部族图阿雷格人）
Example sentencesExamples
- After the first invasion of 711, the Muslim forces, mostly made up of Berbers from North Africa but largely led by Arabs, swept through the country.
- The Berbers are a non-Semitic people who have inhabited the north African coast since prehistoric times.
- By the end of the nineteenth century, Tunisians distinguished between Moors, Turks, Jews, Berbers, Andalusians, Arabs, and various sorts of Europeans.
- It is believed that the Tuareg are descendants of the North African Berbers, and that they originated in the Fezzan region of Libya.
- Modern Tunisians are the descendants of indigenous Berbers and of people from numerous civilizations that have invaded, migrated to, and been assimilated into the population over the millennia.
- Rather closer to home the Spanish also destroyed much of the culture of the Guanches, native inhabitants of the Canary Islands and descendants of the Berbers from nearby North Africa.
- It has been settled by, and has absorbed attributes from, the Berbers, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Africans.
- North Africa has a lot of Berbers, who are Muslim but do not speak Arabic as their mother tongue.
- These results seem more consistent than previous ones with the known history of the Spanish occupation and the presumed relationship between the pre-occupation people and the North African Berbers.
- Like the Berbers of North Africa they are known for an uncomplicated, open and honest style of life which is combined with such a passion for trading that Haussa has become the lingua franca of merchants over a wide area of central Africa.
- More than 90 percent of the population identify themselves as Arab, with most of the remaining minority composed of Berbers and black Africans.
- In 711 the peninsula was separated dramatically from the rest of Europe by an invasion of Arabs and Berbers from North Africa.
- We heard stories about the battles between the Berbers and the Almoravids.
- Muslims, Jews and Christians, Arabs, Berbers and indigenous Spaniards all played a part in developing poetry, philosophy and music.
- At the high water mark of the first Muslim expansion, in the early 8th century, an army of North African Berbers under Arab generalship overran the Iberian peninsula and established a Muslim kingdom.
- The Silbo, which is thought to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa, condenses Spanish into two vowels and four consonants.
- There are similar differences of outlook, part cultural, part economic even between such apparently closely related peoples as the Berbers of North Africa, and between them and the Sub-Saharan peoples.
- The first people to have contact with the Berbers were probably the Phoenicians, who invaded northern Africa in the twelfth century B.C.E.
- There were Copts and Berbers in North Africa when the Arabs came and Byzantine Christians when Turks entered Asia Minor.
- Tuareg, Fulani, Berbers, Soninke, and Songhai lived side by side, in peace and harmony, bound together by their belief in Allah, the Qur'ân and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad.
2mass noun The Afro-Asiatic language of the Berber peoples, spoken by about 11 million people. There are several different dialects; some of them, e.g. Tamashek, are regarded by some scholars as separate languages.
柏柏尔语（柏柏尔人讲的闪含语，约1, 100万人使用，包括数种方言，某些学者认为其中某些方言，如塔马什克语，是独立的语言）
Example sentencesExamples
- Her mother's world by contrast was hidden and private, and in it dialects of Arabic or Berber were spoken but were not usually written down.
- Arabic encroached gradually, spreading through the areas most accessible to migrants and conquerors, but Berber remained the mother tongue in many rural areas.
- In season, heads of unripe wheat or barley (in Berber, azenbo; in Arabic, frik,) may be gathered and dried over the fire so that they can be ground and made into a highly esteemed green couscous.
- They were all yelling at him in French and Arabic and Berber.
- The trip will be led by a multi-lingual (English, French, Berber and Arabic speaking) guide, local cooks and mules (which carry gear and food).
- Hassaniya is a mixture of Arabic and Berber and is the language of the white Maurs and the Haratin.
- More Internet sites emphasizing modernism in Arabic, Farsi, Berber etc. are needed and people building them should be helped.
- Maltese is the only European language in the Afro-Asiatic family, which includes Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, and Hausa.
- Not surprisingly, you'll get a better deal if you bring a friend who speaks Arabic or Berber.
- It was created for writing the Arabic language, but has been adapted to such diverse languages as Persian, Turkish, Spanish, Hebrew, Urdu, Berber, Malay, and Swahili.
- The London-based company provide interpreters in more than 100 languages, from the well-known including French and German, to the more obscure such as Berber and Tagalog.
- Here, only the older people still speak Berber; the remainder speak Arabic and sometimes French, like the rest of Tunisia, which gained independence from France in 1956.
- Maybe eventually Berber will be an official language alongside Arabic in some North African countries.
- Before the Arab conquests, Berber was the chief spoken language.
- Arabic and Berber are the languages most spoken in day-to-day life.

adjective ˈbəːbəˈbərbər

Relating to the Berber peoples or their language.
（与）柏柏尔人（有关）的；（与）柏柏尔语（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- In the fourteen rooms, Berber rugs and cushions add rich reds to the ochres and creams.
- Morocco's Berber tribes maintain a free-spirited lifestyle and they're often herders, nomads and mountain rug weavers.
- These ancient granaries were built by Berber villagers to store their grain, oil and even valuables.
- The flat-roofed Berber homes, some of which can be rented for short stays, are built with chestnut tree joists and wattle and daub.
- Peer out of your bedroom window and you'll be mesmerised by soaring mountain peaks, hillside Berber villages and, hundreds of feet below, the tiny figures of farmers tending walnut trees and local women washing laundry in the river.
- We listened to more Berber wisdom; their main cure, apart from the garlic, being the wonderment of first pressing olive oil for everything from backache to stomach aches.
- For serious purchases - Moroccan antiques such as silver knives and rifles, Berber carpets and cedar or olive wood doors from the High Atlas and jewellery and works of art - you should take advice.
- Tourists enjoy roaming the mountains in Berber villages.
- The major language of the Tuareg is Tamacheq, which is in the Berber language group.
- A common feature of the Atlas landscape is the kasbah, a traditional fortified settlement that evokes images of Berber tribes and Foreign Legionnaires.
- Children wrestle with each other at the curbside, and round-faced Berber women sell tissues on the corner.
- We paused to let some Berber muleteers pass us, their donkeys' panniers loaded with the skis and packs of another climbing party.
- Accommodation will be in traditional simple Berber village houses up in the mountains and Susan will be encouraged to integrate as much as possible into their semi-nomadic village life.
- Bedouin and Berber traditions fused to form sung poetry called Malhun, using traditional north African wind and percussion instruments.
- The fitness of the Berber people was truly impressive.
- One way to work off the Christmas calories is on an eight - day walk through Morocco's western Atlas, exploring Berber villages and seeing how local people live and work.
- For them the government had to open out the country's history and embrace the period before the Arab invasion in the seventh century, thereby recognising that the Berber language and culture were essential components of being Algerian.
- Although in the run up to the election the government finally officially recognised the legitimacy of the Berber language - Tamazight - this did nothing to hold back the mass protest.
- Later, he recorded much Berber folk-music, and in 1959 received a Rockefeller grant for ethnomusicological research.
- The pair spent some time haggling with the Berber porters over a good price; the Berber tribe are mountain inhabitants and work as guides and carry equipment for climbers.

Origin

From Arabic barbar, from Greek barbaros 'foreigner' (see barbarian).

Rhymes

disturber, Djerba, Thurber

Definition of Berber in US English:

Berber

nounˈbərbərˈbərbər

1A member of an indigenous people of North Africa. The majority of Berbers are settled farmers or (now) migrant workers.
Example sentencesExamples
- Rather closer to home the Spanish also destroyed much of the culture of the Guanches, native inhabitants of the Canary Islands and descendants of the Berbers from nearby North Africa.
- The first people to have contact with the Berbers were probably the Phoenicians, who invaded northern Africa in the twelfth century B.C.E.
- Like the Berbers of North Africa they are known for an uncomplicated, open and honest style of life which is combined with such a passion for trading that Haussa has become the lingua franca of merchants over a wide area of central Africa.
- It has been settled by, and has absorbed attributes from, the Berbers, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Africans.
- After the first invasion of 711, the Muslim forces, mostly made up of Berbers from North Africa but largely led by Arabs, swept through the country.
- These results seem more consistent than previous ones with the known history of the Spanish occupation and the presumed relationship between the pre-occupation people and the North African Berbers.
- Modern Tunisians are the descendants of indigenous Berbers and of people from numerous civilizations that have invaded, migrated to, and been assimilated into the population over the millennia.
- The Silbo, which is thought to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa, condenses Spanish into two vowels and four consonants.
- By the end of the nineteenth century, Tunisians distinguished between Moors, Turks, Jews, Berbers, Andalusians, Arabs, and various sorts of Europeans.
- At the high water mark of the first Muslim expansion, in the early 8th century, an army of North African Berbers under Arab generalship overran the Iberian peninsula and established a Muslim kingdom.
- There were Copts and Berbers in North Africa when the Arabs came and Byzantine Christians when Turks entered Asia Minor.
- We heard stories about the battles between the Berbers and the Almoravids.
- It is believed that the Tuareg are descendants of the North African Berbers, and that they originated in the Fezzan region of Libya.
- Muslims, Jews and Christians, Arabs, Berbers and indigenous Spaniards all played a part in developing poetry, philosophy and music.
- The Berbers are a non-Semitic people who have inhabited the north African coast since prehistoric times.
- More than 90 percent of the population identify themselves as Arab, with most of the remaining minority composed of Berbers and black Africans.
- Tuareg, Fulani, Berbers, Soninke, and Songhai lived side by side, in peace and harmony, bound together by their belief in Allah, the Qur'ân and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad.
- In 711 the peninsula was separated dramatically from the rest of Europe by an invasion of Arabs and Berbers from North Africa.
- North Africa has a lot of Berbers, who are Muslim but do not speak Arabic as their mother tongue.
- There are similar differences of outlook, part cultural, part economic even between such apparently closely related peoples as the Berbers of North Africa, and between them and the Sub-Saharan peoples.
2The Afro-Asiatic language of the Berbers. There are several different dialects; some of them, e.g., Tamashek, are regarded by some scholars as separate languages.
柏柏尔语（柏柏尔人讲的闪含语，约1, 100万人使用，包括数种方言，某些学者认为其中某些方言，如塔马什克语，是独立的语言）
Example sentencesExamples
- The London-based company provide interpreters in more than 100 languages, from the well-known including French and German, to the more obscure such as Berber and Tagalog.
- The trip will be led by a multi-lingual (English, French, Berber and Arabic speaking) guide, local cooks and mules (which carry gear and food).
- Arabic and Berber are the languages most spoken in day-to-day life.
- More Internet sites emphasizing modernism in Arabic, Farsi, Berber etc. are needed and people building them should be helped.
- Arabic encroached gradually, spreading through the areas most accessible to migrants and conquerors, but Berber remained the mother tongue in many rural areas.
- Before the Arab conquests, Berber was the chief spoken language.
- In season, heads of unripe wheat or barley (in Berber, azenbo; in Arabic, frik,) may be gathered and dried over the fire so that they can be ground and made into a highly esteemed green couscous.
- Maltese is the only European language in the Afro-Asiatic family, which includes Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, and Hausa.
- They were all yelling at him in French and Arabic and Berber.
- Not surprisingly, you'll get a better deal if you bring a friend who speaks Arabic or Berber.
- Her mother's world by contrast was hidden and private, and in it dialects of Arabic or Berber were spoken but were not usually written down.
- It was created for writing the Arabic language, but has been adapted to such diverse languages as Persian, Turkish, Spanish, Hebrew, Urdu, Berber, Malay, and Swahili.
- Maybe eventually Berber will be an official language alongside Arabic in some North African countries.
- Here, only the older people still speak Berber; the remainder speak Arabic and sometimes French, like the rest of Tunisia, which gained independence from France in 1956.
- Hassaniya is a mixture of Arabic and Berber and is the language of the white Maurs and the Haratin.

adjectiveˈbərbərˈbərbər

Relating to the Berbers or their language.
（与）柏柏尔人（有关）的；（与）柏柏尔语（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- Later, he recorded much Berber folk-music, and in 1959 received a Rockefeller grant for ethnomusicological research.
- Children wrestle with each other at the curbside, and round-faced Berber women sell tissues on the corner.
- We paused to let some Berber muleteers pass us, their donkeys' panniers loaded with the skis and packs of another climbing party.
- Peer out of your bedroom window and you'll be mesmerised by soaring mountain peaks, hillside Berber villages and, hundreds of feet below, the tiny figures of farmers tending walnut trees and local women washing laundry in the river.
- A common feature of the Atlas landscape is the kasbah, a traditional fortified settlement that evokes images of Berber tribes and Foreign Legionnaires.
- For them the government had to open out the country's history and embrace the period before the Arab invasion in the seventh century, thereby recognising that the Berber language and culture were essential components of being Algerian.
- The major language of the Tuareg is Tamacheq, which is in the Berber language group.
- Although in the run up to the election the government finally officially recognised the legitimacy of the Berber language - Tamazight - this did nothing to hold back the mass protest.
- In the fourteen rooms, Berber rugs and cushions add rich reds to the ochres and creams.
- One way to work off the Christmas calories is on an eight - day walk through Morocco's western Atlas, exploring Berber villages and seeing how local people live and work.
- Morocco's Berber tribes maintain a free-spirited lifestyle and they're often herders, nomads and mountain rug weavers.
- Accommodation will be in traditional simple Berber village houses up in the mountains and Susan will be encouraged to integrate as much as possible into their semi-nomadic village life.
- We listened to more Berber wisdom; their main cure, apart from the garlic, being the wonderment of first pressing olive oil for everything from backache to stomach aches.
- The pair spent some time haggling with the Berber porters over a good price; the Berber tribe are mountain inhabitants and work as guides and carry equipment for climbers.
- The flat-roofed Berber homes, some of which can be rented for short stays, are built with chestnut tree joists and wattle and daub.
- The fitness of the Berber people was truly impressive.
- Bedouin and Berber traditions fused to form sung poetry called Malhun, using traditional north African wind and percussion instruments.
- Tourists enjoy roaming the mountains in Berber villages.
- For serious purchases - Moroccan antiques such as silver knives and rifles, Berber carpets and cedar or olive wood doors from the High Atlas and jewellery and works of art - you should take advice.
- These ancient granaries were built by Berber villagers to store their grain, oil and even valuables.

Origin

From Arabic barbar, from Greek barbaros ‘foreigner’ (see barbarian).

单词	Berber
释义	Definition of Berber in English: Berber noun ˈbəːbəˈbərbər 1A member of the indigenous people of North Africa, among whom are the nomadic Tuareg. 柏柏尔人（北非土著民族，包括游牧部族图阿雷格人） Example sentencesExamples After the first invasion of 711, the Muslim forces, mostly made up of Berbers from North Africa but largely led by Arabs, swept through the country. The Berbers are a non-Semitic people who have inhabited the north African coast since prehistoric times. By the end of the nineteenth century, Tunisians distinguished between Moors, Turks, Jews, Berbers, Andalusians, Arabs, and various sorts of Europeans. It is believed that the Tuareg are descendants of the North African Berbers, and that they originated in the Fezzan region of Libya. Modern Tunisians are the descendants of indigenous Berbers and of people from numerous civilizations that have invaded, migrated to, and been assimilated into the population over the millennia. Rather closer to home the Spanish also destroyed much of the culture of the Guanches, native inhabitants of the Canary Islands and descendants of the Berbers from nearby North Africa. It has been settled by, and has absorbed attributes from, the Berbers, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Africans. North Africa has a lot of Berbers, who are Muslim but do not speak Arabic as their mother tongue. These results seem more consistent than previous ones with the known history of the Spanish occupation and the presumed relationship between the pre-occupation people and the North African Berbers. Like the Berbers of North Africa they are known for an uncomplicated, open and honest style of life which is combined with such a passion for trading that Haussa has become the lingua franca of merchants over a wide area of central Africa. More than 90 percent of the population identify themselves as Arab, with most of the remaining minority composed of Berbers and black Africans. In 711 the peninsula was separated dramatically from the rest of Europe by an invasion of Arabs and Berbers from North Africa. We heard stories about the battles between the Berbers and the Almoravids. Muslims, Jews and Christians, Arabs, Berbers and indigenous Spaniards all played a part in developing poetry, philosophy and music. At the high water mark of the first Muslim expansion, in the early 8th century, an army of North African Berbers under Arab generalship overran the Iberian peninsula and established a Muslim kingdom. The Silbo, which is thought to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa, condenses Spanish into two vowels and four consonants. There are similar differences of outlook, part cultural, part economic even between such apparently closely related peoples as the Berbers of North Africa, and between them and the Sub-Saharan peoples. The first people to have contact with the Berbers were probably the Phoenicians, who invaded northern Africa in the twelfth century B.C.E. There were Copts and Berbers in North Africa when the Arabs came and Byzantine Christians when Turks entered Asia Minor. Tuareg, Fulani, Berbers, Soninke, and Songhai lived side by side, in peace and harmony, bound together by their belief in Allah, the Qur'ân and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad. 2mass noun The Afro-Asiatic language of the Berber peoples, spoken by about 11 million people. There are several different dialects; some of them, e.g. Tamashek, are regarded by some scholars as separate languages. 柏柏尔语（柏柏尔人讲的闪含语，约1, 100万人使用，包括数种方言，某些学者认为其中某些方言，如塔马什克语，是独立的语言） Example sentencesExamples Her mother's world by contrast was hidden and private, and in it dialects of Arabic or Berber were spoken but were not usually written down. Arabic encroached gradually, spreading through the areas most accessible to migrants and conquerors, but Berber remained the mother tongue in many rural areas. In season, heads of unripe wheat or barley (in Berber, azenbo; in Arabic, frik,) may be gathered and dried over the fire so that they can be ground and made into a highly esteemed green couscous. They were all yelling at him in French and Arabic and Berber. The trip will be led by a multi-lingual (English, French, Berber and Arabic speaking) guide, local cooks and mules (which carry gear and food). Hassaniya is a mixture of Arabic and Berber and is the language of the white Maurs and the Haratin. More Internet sites emphasizing modernism in Arabic, Farsi, Berber etc. are needed and people building them should be helped. Maltese is the only European language in the Afro-Asiatic family, which includes Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, and Hausa. Not surprisingly, you'll get a better deal if you bring a friend who speaks Arabic or Berber. It was created for writing the Arabic language, but has been adapted to such diverse languages as Persian, Turkish, Spanish, Hebrew, Urdu, Berber, Malay, and Swahili. The London-based company provide interpreters in more than 100 languages, from the well-known including French and German, to the more obscure such as Berber and Tagalog. Here, only the older people still speak Berber; the remainder speak Arabic and sometimes French, like the rest of Tunisia, which gained independence from France in 1956. Maybe eventually Berber will be an official language alongside Arabic in some North African countries. Before the Arab conquests, Berber was the chief spoken language. Arabic and Berber are the languages most spoken in day-to-day life. adjective ˈbəːbəˈbərbər Relating to the Berber peoples or their language. （与）柏柏尔人（有关）的；（与）柏柏尔语（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples In the fourteen rooms, Berber rugs and cushions add rich reds to the ochres and creams. Morocco's Berber tribes maintain a free-spirited lifestyle and they're often herders, nomads and mountain rug weavers. These ancient granaries were built by Berber villagers to store their grain, oil and even valuables. The flat-roofed Berber homes, some of which can be rented for short stays, are built with chestnut tree joists and wattle and daub. Peer out of your bedroom window and you'll be mesmerised by soaring mountain peaks, hillside Berber villages and, hundreds of feet below, the tiny figures of farmers tending walnut trees and local women washing laundry in the river. We listened to more Berber wisdom; their main cure, apart from the garlic, being the wonderment of first pressing olive oil for everything from backache to stomach aches. For serious purchases - Moroccan antiques such as silver knives and rifles, Berber carpets and cedar or olive wood doors from the High Atlas and jewellery and works of art - you should take advice. Tourists enjoy roaming the mountains in Berber villages. The major language of the Tuareg is Tamacheq, which is in the Berber language group. A common feature of the Atlas landscape is the kasbah, a traditional fortified settlement that evokes images of Berber tribes and Foreign Legionnaires. Children wrestle with each other at the curbside, and round-faced Berber women sell tissues on the corner. We paused to let some Berber muleteers pass us, their donkeys' panniers loaded with the skis and packs of another climbing party. Accommodation will be in traditional simple Berber village houses up in the mountains and Susan will be encouraged to integrate as much as possible into their semi-nomadic village life. Bedouin and Berber traditions fused to form sung poetry called Malhun, using traditional north African wind and percussion instruments. The fitness of the Berber people was truly impressive. One way to work off the Christmas calories is on an eight - day walk through Morocco's western Atlas, exploring Berber villages and seeing how local people live and work. For them the government had to open out the country's history and embrace the period before the Arab invasion in the seventh century, thereby recognising that the Berber language and culture were essential components of being Algerian. Although in the run up to the election the government finally officially recognised the legitimacy of the Berber language - Tamazight - this did nothing to hold back the mass protest. Later, he recorded much Berber folk-music, and in 1959 received a Rockefeller grant for ethnomusicological research. The pair spent some time haggling with the Berber porters over a good price; the Berber tribe are mountain inhabitants and work as guides and carry equipment for climbers. Origin From Arabic barbar, from Greek barbaros 'foreigner' (see barbarian). Rhymes disturber, Djerba, Thurber Definition of Berber in US English: Berber nounˈbərbərˈbərbər 1A member of an indigenous people of North Africa. The majority of Berbers are settled farmers or (now) migrant workers. Example sentencesExamples Rather closer to home the Spanish also destroyed much of the culture of the Guanches, native inhabitants of the Canary Islands and descendants of the Berbers from nearby North Africa. The first people to have contact with the Berbers were probably the Phoenicians, who invaded northern Africa in the twelfth century B.C.E. Like the Berbers of North Africa they are known for an uncomplicated, open and honest style of life which is combined with such a passion for trading that Haussa has become the lingua franca of merchants over a wide area of central Africa. It has been settled by, and has absorbed attributes from, the Berbers, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Africans. After the first invasion of 711, the Muslim forces, mostly made up of Berbers from North Africa but largely led by Arabs, swept through the country. These results seem more consistent than previous ones with the known history of the Spanish occupation and the presumed relationship between the pre-occupation people and the North African Berbers. Modern Tunisians are the descendants of indigenous Berbers and of people from numerous civilizations that have invaded, migrated to, and been assimilated into the population over the millennia. The Silbo, which is thought to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa, condenses Spanish into two vowels and four consonants. By the end of the nineteenth century, Tunisians distinguished between Moors, Turks, Jews, Berbers, Andalusians, Arabs, and various sorts of Europeans. At the high water mark of the first Muslim expansion, in the early 8th century, an army of North African Berbers under Arab generalship overran the Iberian peninsula and established a Muslim kingdom. There were Copts and Berbers in North Africa when the Arabs came and Byzantine Christians when Turks entered Asia Minor. We heard stories about the battles between the Berbers and the Almoravids. It is believed that the Tuareg are descendants of the North African Berbers, and that they originated in the Fezzan region of Libya. Muslims, Jews and Christians, Arabs, Berbers and indigenous Spaniards all played a part in developing poetry, philosophy and music. The Berbers are a non-Semitic people who have inhabited the north African coast since prehistoric times. More than 90 percent of the population identify themselves as Arab, with most of the remaining minority composed of Berbers and black Africans. Tuareg, Fulani, Berbers, Soninke, and Songhai lived side by side, in peace and harmony, bound together by their belief in Allah, the Qur'ân and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad. In 711 the peninsula was separated dramatically from the rest of Europe by an invasion of Arabs and Berbers from North Africa. North Africa has a lot of Berbers, who are Muslim but do not speak Arabic as their mother tongue. There are similar differences of outlook, part cultural, part economic even between such apparently closely related peoples as the Berbers of North Africa, and between them and the Sub-Saharan peoples. 2The Afro-Asiatic language of the Berbers. There are several different dialects; some of them, e.g., Tamashek, are regarded by some scholars as separate languages. 柏柏尔语（柏柏尔人讲的闪含语，约1, 100万人使用，包括数种方言，某些学者认为其中某些方言，如塔马什克语，是独立的语言） Example sentencesExamples The London-based company provide interpreters in more than 100 languages, from the well-known including French and German, to the more obscure such as Berber and Tagalog. The trip will be led by a multi-lingual (English, French, Berber and Arabic speaking) guide, local cooks and mules (which carry gear and food). Arabic and Berber are the languages most spoken in day-to-day life. More Internet sites emphasizing modernism in Arabic, Farsi, Berber etc. are needed and people building them should be helped. Arabic encroached gradually, spreading through the areas most accessible to migrants and conquerors, but Berber remained the mother tongue in many rural areas. Before the Arab conquests, Berber was the chief spoken language. In season, heads of unripe wheat or barley (in Berber, azenbo; in Arabic, frik,) may be gathered and dried over the fire so that they can be ground and made into a highly esteemed green couscous. Maltese is the only European language in the Afro-Asiatic family, which includes Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, and Hausa. They were all yelling at him in French and Arabic and Berber. Not surprisingly, you'll get a better deal if you bring a friend who speaks Arabic or Berber. Her mother's world by contrast was hidden and private, and in it dialects of Arabic or Berber were spoken but were not usually written down. It was created for writing the Arabic language, but has been adapted to such diverse languages as Persian, Turkish, Spanish, Hebrew, Urdu, Berber, Malay, and Swahili. Maybe eventually Berber will be an official language alongside Arabic in some North African countries. Here, only the older people still speak Berber; the remainder speak Arabic and sometimes French, like the rest of Tunisia, which gained independence from France in 1956. Hassaniya is a mixture of Arabic and Berber and is the language of the white Maurs and the Haratin. adjectiveˈbərbərˈbərbər Relating to the Berbers or their language. （与）柏柏尔人（有关）的；（与）柏柏尔语（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples Later, he recorded much Berber folk-music, and in 1959 received a Rockefeller grant for ethnomusicological research. Children wrestle with each other at the curbside, and round-faced Berber women sell tissues on the corner. We paused to let some Berber muleteers pass us, their donkeys' panniers loaded with the skis and packs of another climbing party. Peer out of your bedroom window and you'll be mesmerised by soaring mountain peaks, hillside Berber villages and, hundreds of feet below, the tiny figures of farmers tending walnut trees and local women washing laundry in the river. A common feature of the Atlas landscape is the kasbah, a traditional fortified settlement that evokes images of Berber tribes and Foreign Legionnaires. For them the government had to open out the country's history and embrace the period before the Arab invasion in the seventh century, thereby recognising that the Berber language and culture were essential components of being Algerian. The major language of the Tuareg is Tamacheq, which is in the Berber language group. Although in the run up to the election the government finally officially recognised the legitimacy of the Berber language - Tamazight - this did nothing to hold back the mass protest. In the fourteen rooms, Berber rugs and cushions add rich reds to the ochres and creams. One way to work off the Christmas calories is on an eight - day walk through Morocco's western Atlas, exploring Berber villages and seeing how local people live and work. Morocco's Berber tribes maintain a free-spirited lifestyle and they're often herders, nomads and mountain rug weavers. Accommodation will be in traditional simple Berber village houses up in the mountains and Susan will be encouraged to integrate as much as possible into their semi-nomadic village life. We listened to more Berber wisdom; their main cure, apart from the garlic, being the wonderment of first pressing olive oil for everything from backache to stomach aches. The pair spent some time haggling with the Berber porters over a good price; the Berber tribe are mountain inhabitants and work as guides and carry equipment for climbers. The flat-roofed Berber homes, some of which can be rented for short stays, are built with chestnut tree joists and wattle and daub. The fitness of the Berber people was truly impressive. Bedouin and Berber traditions fused to form sung poetry called Malhun, using traditional north African wind and percussion instruments. Tourists enjoy roaming the mountains in Berber villages. For serious purchases - Moroccan antiques such as silver knives and rifles, Berber carpets and cedar or olive wood doors from the High Atlas and jewellery and works of art - you should take advice. These ancient granaries were built by Berber villagers to store their grain, oil and even valuables. Origin From Arabic barbar, from Greek barbaros ‘foreigner’ (see barbarian).
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