Who Are The Berbers Of North Africa
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- In June 2019, an Algeria banned protestors from waving the Amazigh flag. Stating it was an assault on Algeria’s Arab identity. Why? Because the Amazigh are the indigenous people that have occupied North Africa since...well pretty much forever.
Fuelled by couscous these famous merchant nomads once linked the Mediterranean World with Sub-Saharan Africa. Fought against Roman, Arab, and French empires and now battle for recognition in their own countries. They call themselves Amazigh; we know them as the Berbers of North Africa.
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Hsain Ilahiane, Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen)(2006) (amzn.to/2KpfGtI) - This book is very expensive.
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When will you do you next vid on the Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire? By the way, keep up the good work and I love your vids
Thank you for doing this video , I feel like it's dedicated to me 🙂🙂 thanks
Maybe because of the comment that I do before on the other video ?
Good video but for records no one in Algeria pan the flag
Thank you.
My best friend is Amazigh. I learned more about her in 15 minutes than I have in the hours of discussions with her. Now I understand why she is proud and compassionate; feisty a/f and chronically pissed off.
It's not just a tutorial, it was an epiphany for me.
As an amazigh myself, you taught me more in 15min than my country ever did my whole life
exactly. my grandma is the only one still having our traditional clothes
Ur country would neveeer !
That's the point actually to make u believe that u r Arab
@@Lisa-lu6kn well, it ll never happen. Speaking Tamazight is, in itself, an act of resistance.
I really wanna learn the language
Isn't that just life: you grow in historically rich place, and are the last to find out!
Amazigh have such a beautiful culture. Very interesting and colorful. Greetings from a Mexican guy 😃🇲🇽
Thx bro
Thanks
You are welcome in Algeria.
Thnx bro from Algeria 🇩🇿
greetings from Morocco hermano..
thx man
I’m Amazigh (Berber) and I love to learn about my people we truly have endured a lot but we have survived just like the Australian Aborigines,Māori,the Jews, and so many other indigenous and non indigenous races I wish my people were recognized more but our case is slowly getting better please try to learn more about my peoples amazing culture
I have two half morrocans that i have friends with since childhood and when they told me about amazigh I wanted to know more and this made love the amazigh more. Im faroese and they are half faroese
bro we are 87% of Moroccan population 😭
@@PabloEscobar-us9oi who are the 13% left ?
I love your culture!! ❤
North African countries and few in Central and Eastern African, our ancestors are the Amazigh the word berbers its really a discrimination words the Roman use against the Amazigh
thank you for posting this! i was born in the U.S. but my father is from morocco and i’m trying my best to learn about my culture. i don’t know the language and it makes me sad and a little disconnected but the amazigh people are so amazing and i’m so proud to be one 🇲🇦🤍
Same here. So disconnected in the USA from our people.
@@stephlyndsey3932 tell your father to teach you the language. doesn't have to be actual sessions, he could just talk to you until you start to understand him, like a baby learning a language xd
Much love from this Native American to my amazigh people!
Right back at cha! Always considered Native Americans as our distant cousins. Our Group dances during particular times in the year, during harvest and stuff called Ahwach sometimes resemble sounds during rituals of different tribes of the Native Americans. Not to mention the similarity sometimes in colorful clothes!
Tanmirtank ( Thank u )❤️ much love from amazigh to my people native Americans !✌️
Just know, our people reached your motherland before Columbus when al andalus belonged to us and when I see pueblos culture we share many of similtudes that's incredible.
@@user-yv4hz9zv7k Yes I know! Alhamdullilah our ancestors did that. Thanks for mentioning. Adak isghr Rbi/jazakullahu ghairan
@@bibabiba9946
وأسمنا ليس البربر في النصوص التاريخي أسمنا الحقيقي هي إفريقي..
Assaghan-negh amddad ur et berberen nighd imzighen lakin assaghan-negh amddad wad Ifriqiyen.
والله يجزيك الخير.
Love and respect for Amazigh people, Long live Amazigh ! Do not lose your identity ... From a Kurd
Fight but peacefully. Never take up arms as it never helps.
tabraz baloch
We are with dialogue and negotiation untill they are ready to negotiate, if not, we force them to negotiate (And surely negotiation cannot be found in middle east or north Africa)
I am sure my brother is a greeting from Amazigh to Kurd
We love you🌹🌹
If the Kurds are the largest ethnic group without their own country, the Amazigh must be second.
We Amazigh son of Arabs.
Why do they want to obliterate the identities of other peoples?
As an Amazigh myself, I thank you. Thank you really for representing our culture in such a good way.
I'm proud to have some Amazigh background running through my veins. Many people who are from portuguese and spanish descent have some Amazigh dna because of the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.
May the Free Man thrive as long as there are stars to shine!!!
Likewise, we are proud and glad to have you as a brother 😊
I'm an Amazigh from Algeria, and I took a dna test I was surprised that I had spain, portugal and Italy but not france in the results
@Eviekaii when I see the resemblance of many coastal north africans to Spaniards and portugese people, it makes sense. The amount of shilha people who look like them shocked me cause of how far south they are.
As an Amazigh, I just want to thank you so much for bringing our history and culture to light. A lot of people don't know or deny our existence. Thank you for making me feel appreciated and proud of my ancestry
My respectable, virtuous sister
No one can deny your culture and race
But I want to make it clear that there's some information that's been misleading and perverse of European colonialism
History speaks that Amazig’s origins of barbarians and barbarians have migrated from the North African Peninsula, including the barbarians formed from their Amazigh crucifix
And the evidence wrote the world son of Khaldoun
I felt exactly the same .!!💛💚💛💚
Wlh yiwen our yesli yesnagh 😂
Personally, carful from using this ID for colonial purposes! I mean the wrong hands.
Here some love from iran ❤️ most people think u are arab
Finally we're getting some recognition for our amazigh origins its really sad that others consider us (north africans) arab
Thank u for the clarification and ur information are on point keep it up
Right! I hate it when people just jump to conclusions that I'm Arabic just Because I'm Algerian
In France they call all north africans "les arabes" without making distinction.. same in Italy and Spain. Where are you from? Uhmm Morocco/Algeria/Tunisia.... oh nice i can you teach me something in arab?... even if im not arab i answear, yes!? I hate that but i got used to it.
@@yusufibntachfin7978 Actually no one will bother to distinguish between us and arab because we were invaded by arab and we are muslim... Selon leur logique on peut être moitié français... Moitié turc aussi ect.. Puisque ils nous ont colonisé pendant des csiècles... C'est vraiment bête de penser ainsi
Etre musulman ne signifie pas obligatoirement q'on est arab ils ne peuvent pas faire la différence entre la race est la religion 😑
@Houda Benhacine i can't agree more... There isn't a pure race that's for sure... And it has always been used to divide us into minorities... unfortunately we fell for it each and every time
@Houda Benhacine Amine❤
i hope that this new generation will break the stereotypes and express its true identity
Fun fact : the first book ever about Human history was written by an amazigh in the university of Bejaia in Algeria during the Roman colonization of North Africa and since it was written in their language they gained credit for it.
If it's true then I'm so proud rn
That's totally not true
Hi, do you have the name of the author or the book please
@@pandaroux4177 i know the name of the book "golden Donkey"
@@Nannazut you are neither intresting nor funny!
as a kabyle man, I got a little surprised by having this video as recommended since our culture isn't very well known in the big wide word. So seeing this very detailed and entertaining video made my tiny heart overwheled. thank you for your hard work !
You should see the real kabyle people burning a man live in tizi ouzou algeria
@@zinoovic5947 dont say no sense brother erybody knows now that It's was the MAK with the help of the mexzen of morroco and we know now that algerian are united and lah yrhem djamel BTW the video is about all the amazing not just Kabyle
@@zinoovic5947 bruh it was the MAK real amazighs are muslims and wont do that for anyone
@@Xvx32 "real amazigh are Muslims" the millions of amazigh non Muslims would like to disagree
@@ss-de4cm Amazighs in origine was Religional Fighters
Even that 10% of unbelivers They just hate religions
They are the most proud people, very strong minded, the women and men. They always thrive!
@@youssefbarj9770 we don't hate arabs, but we can't coexist if we are oppressed and the simple things like our history is taught in school like arabs are heroes and we're villains, things like being unable to study my language or claim mt ethnicity without getting hate. Love to everyone, and peace
@@youssefbarj9770 i don't know where you're from , but none of what u mentioned exists in Tunisia.
Nope im algerian their just like everyone else here just a few who hate arabs and want to be french or european
@@youssefbarj9770 for a good reason
Kiera-Leigh Ravariere-Harper sorry for your experience in tunisia
My name is NUMIDIA and i'm so proud to be an amazigh
as far as names go this one's pretty good
@Baldie Da Beast Or... like the ancient kingdom of Numidia, which - you've guessed it - they were amazighs too!
You should be proud of your heritage and I think they forgot the 'Nubians' kind of known apparently as Meshwesh
Hey that's my best friend's name
So when you die, Allah will not ask you if you are Arabic or Amazigh...
I am myself an Amazigh from Algeria, and honestly you nailed it 💯 Thank you for sharing my history and culture with the world 🙏
from an amazigh with love, bless you for the effort you put in the making of this. Azul
A proud amazigh here ✋✌
Speaking thamazight since birth
Azul
Azul ♓
Same here.
Azul iffalawan nech de mazigh al nhar anger 3ACHA RIF!
Azul flawen akithh
I am Amazigh from morocco, they tried to destroy us but we are still here with our culture and language.
Azul.
Azul
Ula d nekk d tamazight n lzzayer
@@jypappi7484
Azul nekk n rif
Atif Atifa I’m American born but I’m Canary Islands amazigh
@@Angellady11 nice
@@Angellady11
Azul bro
I'm from Morocco and you really did a lot of research for this it's pretty good
We're so proud of our history 💖💖💖from tunisia 🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳
Your family name is Yaakoubi you are not an amazigh my dear.
@@SenorThomas Names in North Africa usually do not reflect origins. Which part of Arabization you don't understand? It's clear that North Africa had heavy Arabization so most Amazighs today don't even speak the language and have Arabic names. Personally, it's the case for me too I'm Moroccan, my dad is from South East Morocco which is heavly Amazighs but has an Arabic last name and my mom also is of Rifi origins but her family name is Arabic.
The way you cover every single topic about the Amazigh is truly amazing. Most channels would have stoped at history, it's really nice that you go with culture as well!
Fake!
Look up masaman, youll really like him
So true where r u from
Indeed! this is truly amazing!
😍morrocan berber and proud😍
And that's how you get an instant sub and the eternal gratitude of an amazigh, you covered nearly everything that should be said in about 15min that's amazingh!
amazingh that's a nice one
Thank you for confirming the quality fam
I see what you did there ... my montain is amazighing too btw.
If I may ask is it possible to spot Amazigh from Arabs just from looking at you? Also do you dress any different these days?
@@hello-friend990 in some cases you can tell if someone is amazigh, but its hard to tell an arab cuz they mixed a lot with amazigh, as for the dress, outside of rural regions all dress like a normal urban citizen, i rarely spot any traditional clothing, but again, i do live in a metropolitan city so i dont have the experience of others.
Sending a lot of love to my fellow Africans, Amazigh people! Keep your heads up, we’re so proud of you for keeping on fighting for your rights! Coming from a Senegalese❤️
As an Amazigh, i felt so proud of my origin while watching this video. thank youu so much for your great efforts❤
I've never heard much of these people. What a beautiful culture. The way they treat women is so honorable. These people deserve to be recognized and respected, so thank you for this video
Thank you for youre nice comment ❤
Greetings from an algerian Berber (amazigh)
@@massinissaziriamazigh8122 Power to y'all! Hello from Louisiana, USA!
Thank you ♓❤
yeah , we don't needs (FEMINISM) protests to belief in our women's power and rights and to honored any other women
Love ♥️
"The present Amazigh year is 2969"
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But karthagion (pun) were the decendents of the phoenesians it is proved we have records of them
My father is amazigh from Nalut, Libya. I went there one time, after the war. I love our culture 🇱🇾 ❤️
You are so awesome! The Amazigh have been misrepresented so often throughout history and I am amazed at what a great job you did to summarize what is an extremely complex history. Thank you for providing a lot of accurate information in a fun way!
It’s so sad, I’m A Berber Algerian and the majority of the North African people think that they are Arabs, but the truth is that only 0,5% of the population have Arab ancestors, there is a difference between being Arab or being Arab speakers 🤷🏻♂️
Na Samy
DNA science solved the problem and any one wants to know his real root and origin must do a Y-DNA test and within 4 to 5 weeks will know his ancestors :
Pure Arabs carry the Haplogroup J1c3d
Pure Berbers carry the Haplogroup E1b1 m81
@@mujemoabraham6522 yep, berbers are african, they just have ancestors of africans, thus the e1b1b but for a fact they have a strong bloodline of arab, thus the J.
Funny this is probably due to you know Arab imperialism
Oui et c'est dramatique. j'ai appris à plusieurs personnes adultes d'origine maghrébine que le peuple arabe est originaire d'Arabie, que le Maghreb est originellement berbère, qu'il a été colonisé par les arabo-musulmans au moyen-âge, que saint Augustin était berbère par sa mère qui était une sainte berbère etc. pffff !
they were brainwashed to not make the distinction between arabphones and being an actual arab. just to privilege the retards from the gulf
At the begining he said "fuelled by couscous", I smiled a bit. I'm from the Northeast of Brazil, and couscous is an essential food here, but the main differences, I believe, is that ours is made with cornmeal and we write it "cuscuz". Also the portuguese were the ones who brought it from North Africa to Brazil. We've been eating couscous for a few centuries and it became a staple food in my region, since it's a cheap, tasty and filling meal for people living on the countryside to get through the hardships of the day, specially considering that we also live on a region with an arid climate. Thank you, Amazigh people of North Africa, for giving us such an awesome food!
Greetings from Algeria
the real word is seksu - couscous is the word once transformed by the arabs who seemed to be unabe to say it properly!
Wow i never realized it was a big thing in Brazil. Couscous is a very big part of our culture, so i am happy that other people enjoy it as well.
Very welcome brother :)
@@mhenoussene no French,in Arabic kesksi
I was completely ignorant to Amazigh culture before this video. Thank you, I've learned so much!
It's sad to see further examples of imperialism and empire destroying native culture and language, but I'm encouraged to see lots of Amazigh people in the comments clearly passionate about maintaining their history and identity.
Much love from Scotland
The last thing you have to worry about is us neglecting our tongue or culture because maybe not too much representation in social media but in real life the culture survived we still speak our language, we wear our own traditional clothes we have our own music and musical instruments our own jewelry we know The amazigh alphabet we have out own traditional food and also well organized dances and more and more we I'm really surprised by us after these thousands of years we still have the amazigh identity
@@SamiraSamira-px4up that's fantastic to hear. I hope I manage to visit one day and experience it myself
@@DNeuropsych yes maybe one day
In Algeria, there are free Berbers. There are also Berbers who deny their origins, and we call them Arabists because they want to attribute themselves to another people.
But everyone who undergoes a d.n. examination. He finds himself an Amazigh
Dont push youre berberian identity on arabs, most of them are in now way originally berberian. Both have their own roots
@@ladyessi 😂😂😂
Hope Amazigh thrives. They did the same in the Levant.
Free people of north Africa ⵣ
Always proud to be amazigh ♓
Ur nettruzu ur neknu 🙏🏻
thagui thif anerz wala neknu
@@adnanehaddouche975 oui lol! 😅
Always remember we are always brothers as algerians in this country ❤️❤️
Are you moroccan berber which clan
@@adnanehaddouche975 what is that means
I can feel it now.
Eurocentrists: The real Berbers are WHITE
Afrocentrists: The real Berbers are BLACK
Arabists: ARAB!
Berbers: WE ARE AMAZIGHT!!
@Ares Pertriousvis Afrocentrists who claim that the original Berbers are white are usually from the diaspora, like the United States. Africans from Africa see them as natives of a different race, like how Arabs, Armenians, Indians, Koreans, Vietnamese, and Papuans are all from Asia.
Lol you made my day 😂 everybody want us.
But i really can't blame them. Kabil and tuereg are both amazigh but are very different. One looks white and the other black and without forgetting that most of north africans are very light brown color.
Salvatore Lanzieri not at all
@ⵟⴰⵏⵉⵔⵉ But not really much, though
This made me cry thank u for bringing our suppressed cultural identity to light i have learned so much i didn't know amazing video
Thanks a bunch for this video. Greetings from Kabylie ❤️❤️❤️
It pains me to see this type of channel not getting the Recognition It deserves 😪
ⵏⴰⴽⴽⴻⵏⵏⴻⴹ ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ ♓ (in English "we are Amazighs", written in Tifinagh)
Hello do you understand this language???? Please tell me
@Mounawa3at منوعات tell me about Music
wow, seems like an some sort of space language
We're everywhere😂
@@H4XOR23 you can just write matoub lounes music and you are gonna listen to a beautiful music full of meaning
It’s nice to see people from different countries knowing about the real North Africa history
Much love brother❤️
I love this video! Thank you it makes me respect the culture way more than i already did.
As an Amazigh I would like to thank you for your effort to make this work, ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵉⵔⵜ
and welcome to all the people of the world.
I Didn't know there IS amazigh letters in keyboards
@@yasmineotmani2627 me too. there is no translation online, that's very sad :( i wish i could hear it
@@azwell45 my boyfriend IS amazigh xD
.. i hear it everyday without understading a single word
Yeah there should be in translation u__u
@@yasmineotmani2627 amazigh boyfriend is goals lol
i'm a proud amazigh
I don’t know how people still think North African are Arab 😂😂 because they speak Arabic it’s not mean they are Arab
لان معظمهم عرب و أجناس ثانيه من اوروبين ومغول وتتار وشعوب أخرى من قبل الفتوحات الاسلاميه ومن بعدها اختلطت الأنساب لذلك تجد البشره القمحيه والبيضاء
لو انساب الافارقه لم تختلط بباقي شعوب الأرض لبقت بشرتهم السوداء كما هي من اول أفريقيا إلى آخرها
@@seeeraam8943 that's just plain wrong , most of hem are most definitely not arabs.
idir bouchdoug But somehow they keep denying this fact
Was it a political move to paint most morrocons, algerians, and tunisians as simply arab?
Tbh is just like Syrians and Lebanese there not originaly arabs there Roman same with North Africa’s with being amazigh but it’s like we’re arabs but not original Arabs
tremendous and excellent work ! thank you for exposing this millenary culture to the world eyes
Thank you so much for sharing our culture and history with the world ! Indeed, it's very interesting and fascinating. Much love from an Amazigh person :)
As an Algerian kabyle I'm ashamed that I learned more about my ppl and my history from this video than I did in school
I'm Muslim as most kabyle are and I definitely don't have a problem with arabic being the national language as long as Thamazigh is along side it and for them to respect our culture and our history and it is the history of our country and everyone should learn it
May Allah bless you our country Algeria 🇩🇿 and the rest of Maghreb
I dont see why some arabs oppose making Tamazight an official language ??? Even darija here in Morokko is a mixture of both, but some people are stuck in history..
@@Nacerodz you guys must be careful, Algerians now are smelling freedom, but some (backed by france probably) dont want that, just stay united as a people and nothing will stand in your way, greetings from a morocca friend
@@TheTariqibnziyad thanks Brother... God bless you
I got attacked for speaking amazigh
My whole life I grew up thinking I was a Moroccan Arab, born and raised in the USA. I learned recently from my mother, that She’s not an Arab, but Amazigh and was hiding it because she didn’t want me to feel out of place or an outsider whenever we visited. I then learned from my father that he’s not even an Arab, but Italian, born in Syria by Italian parents and raised as a Syrian. I have a lot to learn about my own culture lmao hoping this video will help me out a bit
people like your mom is why north africa got arabised.
tragalfar Law that is such an ignorant comment. North Africa got Arabized because of war, conquest, trading, diplomacy. My mom acted the way she did BECAUSE North Africa was Arabized, not the other way around.
Dimaaa maghrebbbb when i think of maghreb i think of the berbers not arabs no real moroccan is arab
@@adamramadan8693 no you miss the point here. North africa didn't get arabized because of war. They became muslims because of war. The reason the people got arabized is because they started speaking arabic and claiming themselves to be arab descendants from the prophet. It was a very common thing a few centuries ago. Thats why u see in most cities people speak arabic but just a village next to the city everyone speaks tmazight. And im sorry if i hurt you with my comment it was not my meaning im just stating what i think is what happened (excuse me for my english) asalam alaykom
@@azegzawabarkan8680 your rudeness wasn't necessary really!
Wow this was so interesting and respectful. Thank you for this video!
Love these deep but accessible tip-of-the-iceberg dives into world histories and religions. A thousand Thank You's to the Creative Peeps behind Cogito!
Since my birth my parent have been telling me that i am morrocan amazigh. We have our own language and culture. Everytime somebody asks me what i speak i say berbers and they mostly get confused because they have never heard of it. I am very happy i am not the only one and that i still know this old beautiful culture. I can happlit say that i am a proud berber
In some years your culture will vanish and you will all consider yourself arab if you want to avoid this and save your civilisation you should push back arabic influence that is basically colonising and been colonising you for hundreds of years.(Sorry for my english)
I am Kabyle! (Amazigh from Algeria)
@@redark3093 LMFAO dumbest comment I’ve ever seen 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Berbers descend from the amalekites and the himyarites, both Arab civilisations 😂😂😂😂 amalekites are from imliq son of Lud son of Shem. And himyar is a son of Saba son of jokshan son of Abraham. 😂😂😂😂
@@lets_wrapitup give me your sources and stop spamming emojis it's annoying
@@redark3093 you can search it up yourself I don’t need to spoon food you it
I learned something new, I will now call them Amazigh, not berber.
There are so many cultures I had no idea about, even after visiting them. Guess I should listen more next time.
Thanks for teaching me.
Thank you for respecting us :) 🤝
You will be welcome to come in our house ^^
Arius is an amazigh .
greetings from a Moroccan Amazigh.
@@bigsky3792 hh hadi noukta 3lach nta amazifhi wnasabak haji حجي نسب عربي حميري من اليمن أصل العرب
Well done..I love the humor in-between..I've learned a lot about my people..thank you❤
"The Amazigh both resisted and assisted the Arab conquests" that actually sums it up all.
well yeah , in every invasion there are people that look at it in a good way and some not.
Most Algerians are lead to believe they are pure Arabs, my first language is Arabic, it's the only language I've ever considered my own but i will NEVER reject my Amazigh heritage.
Moroccans as well
Amazigh are Phoenicians and have immigrated from the Arabian Peninsula to current Palestinian..they have built a civilization there...then king David and the Jews invaded Jerusalem and Phoenicians immigrated to Morroco and Algeria...therefore your ancestry goes back to the Arabian Peninsula
@@HashmiSan You clearly know nothing about Amazigh history.
Phoenicians only settled heavily in Carthage Tunisia, establishing the Punic civilization there, there's probably a mixture of Phoenician and Berbes in what's is now Tunisia, but they did not have that much direct presence in other parts of the Maghreb and Libya. Modern Berbers are still similar to Copper Age and Bronze Age Berbers, obviously with some differences acquired later due to relatively minor admixture with African and Eurasian migrants, but they are in no way Phoenicians descendents.
@@nessfen3633 did you see that arabcentric? they are getting more and more in numbers, it's kinda alarming to be honest. arabs are obsessed with amazigh .
@Solid Snake there are also jewish berbers, moroccan jews alone are the second largest jewish community in israel and christian bebrers in europe and the west so no, not everyone is a muslim. and even for those who are, we are muslim yes, but not arab muslims which is the point and we should be proud of that
As an Amazigh from the Tuareg people (Kel Tamsheq) who hold the nationality of Mali, I can say the Tuareg in north Mali were able to maintain their language and culture as they were for thousands of years. The reason behind this is the weakness of the Malian state in the north of the country, so the Tuareg have continued to live on their own economically, culturally and in other aspects of life.
Every amazigh from moroco algeria respects Mali because it's the same people
And thanks to your people the Tifinagh hasn't been lost. In Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia the arabization current has tried for long periods to erase our heritage, for a long time and in many regions it has succeeded. Fortunately nowadays we are starting to reclaim our identity and our heritage.
I met with some Tuareg people when I was in North Africa, their culture is beautiful
@@MisterPete3 So Amazigh are black right?
🙄 black are the descendants of the slaves of the Berbers not the true ones. Don’t forget that
Greetings to the amazigh people from your somali cousin!!!🙏🙏🇸🇴🇸🇴
Thank you from an algerian north african berber and christian
Thank you for that simplified and funny explanation 😄 Came across the topic as i am colombian and travelling to andalucia and morroco I couldnt help but notice the similarities in music, arts and customs there are with indigenous tribes in the Guajira region of Colombia and berbers. I was surprised to see how the years of the spanish conquest coincide with the moorisation of south of spain- where spanish conquerors came from mostly. Amazing how everything is so interconnected. Would love a video on sufism btw. Love your content
"they've lived in constant resistance"
*picture of Zidane headbutting someone shows up*
seems about right :'D
that one cracked me xD
Almost killed me lol 😂 😂 😂
For real Berbers are not pussies
Lol!!!!
zidane is french lmao
Im Amazigh soussi from south Morocco. A city called Agadir we are amazigh and we are proud to be ❤🙏
NANA OSAKI what’s the difference between soussi and chleuh?
@@Scuderia1talia amazigh has different dialects like chleuch and souss is actually a region in morocco (like agadir or taroudant) where most this chleuch amazigh live..
I'm from Marrakesh, but born in Agadir 💙
@@BTBVOY. im tunisian and kind of ignorant a bout amazigh history and i was thinking that souss came from soussa if you have any links or trusted sources a bout the history and the language .
your neighbor from tunisia .
Mouad "MoeLL" El Bourahi I went to holiday in Agadir last year, it's a very nice city.
Extremely well done and amazingly informative. Thanks for your great effort.🦁
This video is a masterpiece
Well done 👌👌
Proud amazigh from morocco ❤️
Asalaamu aleykum bro from India as a Muslim
"AZUL" means HI or literally "come close to my heart" in amazigh language.
to correct :
"KAHINA" her real name is DIHIYA, she was called kahina by the Arabs.
It's sad that people who lives in North Africa believes that they are Arabs.
many of them are arabs and why its sad?
well i'm not neither ma country, it's the same story of the ugly duckling ,i feel bad for the ignorance.
@@cuzimmoody6470 That is because they are Arabized and not Arabs, idk about Morocco and other regions but in Algeria the French worked hard to erase the Algerian identity to cease the resistance, so to make the local believe that Algeria is part of France they banned Arabic from schools along with Tamazight, they banned Islamic teachings and such while instilling the French language and values,...
In order to restore the Algerian values and identity, scholars worked hard in teaching Islam, other sciences and Arabic again to the new generation to lead resistance against the French, and that what happen, after the independence unfortunately France already instilled their pawns before leaving, and those who lead the revolution became in the open and one by one they were killed, and after few presidents Boumedien came into power in illegal way, the Amazigh speaking people stood against him but soon he shut them out by making fake concerns and working on separating the Algerians into "Arabs" and Amazigh by creating non-existent racism, and treating Amazigh speaking people as a minority and not real Algerians, he made a lot of major changes whether they are good or bad but he created modern Algeria with all of its corruption, till this day some consider him a hero, and others consider him a traitor,.....
in short whether an Algerian speaks Arabic or Amazigh as a first language and whether they consider themselves Arab or not they all share the same DNA of at least 80-90% Amazigh, Native North African.
@@azizbey4334 yep ALL GOOD, "you know... but you consider.. "what a confusion ,our language is not arabic as you can see ,if we can speak in Arabic (fosha) it does not mean that we are Arabs.
@@azizbey4334I realized that real Muslims were not Arabs, sorry but we don't much care what the Arabs think of us.
Omg thanks there are not a lot of video about us and it makes me super happy
Thank you so much. Very good video with plenty of info and facts. Very good job
Her real name is Dihiya. Kahina is the arabic version of the tamazigh word Dihiya.
Amastan ⵎⴰⵣⴰⵔⴽⵉ no Kahina is the Arabic word for priestess
Offizier Maurizio aus Tamazgha ⵍⵉⴱⵢⴰ is ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⴳⵀⴰ Her name is Dihya but she’s known as priestess
Kahinah (female priest) = kahin (priest) cognate with Hebrew "cohen"/kohen
whats the word dihiya mean? I wish I can learn tamazight already
@@mino779 according to the historians the name Dihya means the beautiful one also calls it Dyhia Tadmut or Dihya Tadmayt which means the beautiful gazelle
Makes me wanna play as "Berbers" in the upcoming Age of Empires 2 Definite Edition.
I come from Algeria and I was so hyped when I found out that Berbers are included in AOE
@@Smiktozo-213: Only to be disappointed as you played it? Those kind of games very seldom make any justice to any culture foreign to the developers.
Make sure to choose Sahara maps!
@@Wolf-gt3kd Why not Iberian map jejejeje
@@gatoreptiliano8785 or Arabia maps
Intriguing video, packed with information: practically all new to me. Grateful, thanks! Marcel, Netherlands
I'm amazigh rifian from North Morocco. A city name nador. All people are amazigh 90 /
My grandmther born there
Im from there too
Sorry brother rif not es morrocco
rifian are cowards they are not moroccan they are sons of spanish military
@@user-no9yc1wp4v why you share hate? You stupid?
Much love and respect ✊🏾 to my Amazing Amazigh people!!
From a Somali !! ✊🏾
Greetings from Morocco 😊
Gr. Imane Alors on dit quoi?? ✌🏾
@@MrAkm1984 Tanmirt 😊
Great video, thank you for sharing🏳
I can't say that many have covered this as well as you did , thanks
I didn't know most of this things. I heard about tamazigh language and I was very surprised and curioused. This video was interesting and informative. Greetings from Serbia 👋
@ⴰⵙⴰⴼⴰⵕ ⵏⴰⵔⴰⵖⴰⵙ Please don't talk nonsense.
@@savkovic2011 No hate against Serbs but what he says are facts, Serbs demostrated with green flags in Belgrade back to 2011, while Gaddafi litterly wanted to wipe us out badly, even in 2011 he bombed the Amazigh town of Yefren for no reason. So in short you supported a leader that wanted to wipe us out, how would you feel if we would wave flags of the Ustashe
@@hodnatumart4893 I didn't even know about that.. Sorry for hear that...
Hvala 💙 From a Moroccan Amazigh
@@savkovic2011 Nemoj da mu se izvinjavas,to je klasicna propaganda,Gadafi je dobar covek bio
You totally missed the chance to name the video "The Amazing Amazigh".
As an Amazigh, I thank you for this video! And thank you for respecting us by saying Amazigh and not berber
You just got a new subscriber
The best video that describes our existence ever 🙏great job man, thank you
hello to all my cousins amzigh do not let your languages disappear beat you transmit them to your children.
from a somali man.
Love to all the Amazigh people and nations from America!
Thank you
Thanks
@loveinheaven2020 runi Thank you
Thnk you bro .. from ♓🇩🇿
Very very interesting, thank you for creating this video!
Thank you for the nice topic 🙂
Would really recommend y'all to check out the Tuareg band Tinariwen
Thanks for the recommendation!
I was gonna say that. Guys, they're AMAZING, give them a go.
DUDE I LOVE THEIR MUSIC!!
I have become an "addict" on that music really
Imarhan and Tikoubaouine too
I’m with you amazighs, I’m from Iran and much interested in your culture.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇩🇿🇩🇿
@Enclave communications center They stole everything from the Babylonians when the latter started to weaken due to internal strife.
Were it not for its proximity to Babylon, Persia would have never seen the light. Babylonian civilization pre-existed them and before that they were merely wandering tribes .
🇹🇳ⵣ❤️🇮🇷
bruh The persian culture is my second favorite culture behind russian
@@benamar.x8990 everybody stole from the babylonians bro
Thank you for this. I enjoy all of your videos, but this one opened up a new culture that I was never taught about. I am going to jump from here into other resources about these amazing people.
You did an amazxzing job I think this the best video on CZcams right now that talks about our history thank you for making it
I love the Amazigh so much! Their culture is amazing, and I wish we could know more about their history. They have the best desert blues bands as well. Try and listen to Tinariwen.
Thank you so much. We are diverse :)
Bro, there is no such thing as "Amazigh". This word is a modern neologism and has not history basis.
Thank you dear friend! Tinariwen is my favourite group too. Another fact: the music genre of blues originated in the saharan desert
The word is not modern at all, We call our language "Tamazight", and ourselves Imazighen, in plural
@@AraboAlgerian2 ur an Arab aren't u ??
It"s not just Algeria and Morroco. You should've included Tunisia too.
tounes a9alia tw, most of us speak arabic
@@user-hb4ss4oe6b ethnically most of Tunisians are Amazigh. I, myself have 71% Amazigh DNA.
Arabic is just the language we speak because of our education system.
@@MrBensoltana haha, because of education system;!!
Aziz Ben Soltana yeah education system and over thousand of years of language evolution and adoption ... that too.. LOL.
@Alliam Isaman so when are you guys going to declare tamazight as a national language now that you are independent from arabcentric dicators? oh wait, nevermind, colonial french is still in schools.
Thank you for making this! I bought a “Berber” seasoning and I’m so glad to know the history and struggle that cultivated it
berber seasoning has nothing to do with imazighen but with Somalis, the term berber in arabic was used in the pre-islamic times to cushites and post-islam they used it for north africans.
Incredibly well informed and easy to follow, despite the complex nature of these videos subjects.
Vive les Amazigh People! I have known & love these amazing people & their beautiful culture for 5 years. An American fiance of a Kabyle in Northern Algeria.💞💛♓
thank you
U luckyyyy tell her azul from la kabylie ❤❤❤
Congratulations
Thank you ❤
I wish you didn’t convert.
From Tunisia Greetings to all my Amazigh brother, in my profile pic is my mother carying me as a baby in her amazigh clothes back in 90s
Wow
تونس عربية و تبا لك
@@lol-kc5ds nah,tunisia is amazigh,deal with it
@@maracim9787 الفينقيين ههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه
I'm visiting Morocco next week and i've been looking for videos about it for a couple of weeks. Yous has been the best! engaging and interesting, I finally heard something about the place that i'm going to visit that wasn't superficial. thanks!
What an interesting culture, thank you for the video!!
You forgot to mention that Morocco 🇲🇦 was the first country in the world to have Tamazight as an official language in 2011 .
in the world hhhh
@@teavertea yes in the world .
Deal with it 😎
WTF HHH Morocco and algeria hh in the world
Malta was also the first county in the world to have Maltese as an official language 😒
Actually Amazigh was the official language long before Morocco even existed. Those Arabised devils just took it away from public life in order to suck up to their Arab slave masters.
the French killed of all of the barbary leopards lions and bears that used to inhabit Algeria btw my great grandpa fought against them
That's so sad to hear. Can you not reintroduce any similar varieties?
Franks are not gauls... franks are arabs.
François 1st
www.france-pittoresque.com/IMG/jpg/francois-ier-2.jpg
@@Paraclef the franks were a Germanic tribe
they did the same to Atlas lions in Morocco
@sami BDM the Arabs came much earlier than the french the lions only exterminated about a 100 years ago at the time of Eoropean occupation
Best video about the subject in youtube, thanks for the actually factual representation of the Amazigh culture and history
loved this video, keep on doing this, please❤️❤️❤️
i'am a proud amazigh women thanks for taking the time and research about us
Junaid Islam no we are happy with any religion I’m muslim btw but we have many religions in our folks so we respect all we just don’t want to be forgotten we want our flag and language to be known because then we will end up like the native Americans in America
@Junaid Islam The dominating viewpoint among Amazigh militants is the one of a secular society which tolerates all faiths as well as their absence. However, it does not require too much efforts to realize that Arabism and Islamism are both sides of a same coin. This means that one cannot eradicate the Arabian virus without eradicating the Islamic one. By the way, the Arabian language was invented at the same time as the Quran. The word "Quran" was derived from the word "Syrian", and the language of the Quran is a mixture between Syriac, Aramaic and Hebrew languages, thus giving rise to what shall be called later the (classical) Arabic language.
@Junaid Islam when I see people like him I start to get racist a little bit against the berbers.
@Junaid Islam thank you brother
@Junaid Islamlet's not fool ourselves man, the only people benefited from islam are saudi arabians, and you already know that
we're just pretending to be blind when it comes to religion
I'm a Riffian Amazigh. ⵣ🇲🇦
Who else?
Min da tggem? ⵎⵉⵏ ⴷⴰ ⵜⴳⴳⴻⵎ? 😏
Sirrr kowed
@@anaskua6304 jimak
So am I!!
Same
I love this lovely and funny documentary. Very educational.
Love you my fellow African brothers & sisters❤
Amazing video, as always. I have an amazihr/Berber friend and I love that this gave me a deeper understanding and appreciation for his culture than I had had. Would you be able to do the ryukyu people of Okinawa, Japan/AKA the ryukkyu islands? I am a Japanese-Korean American, with my Japanese side being Okinawa. Since they are also considered indigenous people, I was wondering if that could fall within the realm of this mini series you are doing. That would sure make my heart warm to learn more about my own people in your beautifully simplistic animation style, and (personally IMO), charming and very listenable Irish accent❤️🙏🔥 much love from the USA