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noun a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa
noun a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco
originFrom Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech. Cognate of English barbarian.
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