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Berber

branch of the Afroasiatic language family indigenous to North Africa
Language language_family Q25448
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Summary

Berber is a language family[1]. Berber ranks in the top 1% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,697 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Morocco[3], Algeria[4], Libya[5], Tunisia[6], Niger[7], Mauritania[8], Mali[9]
  • Subclass of: Afroasiatic[10]
  • Part of: non-territorial languages ​​of France[11]
  • Commons category: Berber languages[12]
  • Has part(s): Northern Berber languages[13], Western Berber / Amazigh[14], Tuareg[15], Eastern Berber[16], Numidian[17], Guanche[18]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Berber languages[19]
  • Described at URL: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/tamazight/6wXxMxu7fPsWdA?hl=en[20]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 17,000,000[21]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[22], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[23], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[24]
  • Different from: Berbers[25]
  • Indigenous to: Maghreb[26]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BER[27]
  • Linguistic typology: verb–subject–object[28], isolating language[29], fusional language[30]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[31]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Berber-language films[32]
  • Related category: Category:Berber languages pronunciation[33]

Why It Matters

Berber has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] Berber is known by 117 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Related Entities

Abd al-Mu'min Abdeljalil Hadda Abd el-Krim Abdenour Boushaki Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur Ahmed Afulay Bouzid Algeria Ali ibn Yusuf Amina Doumane Amine Harit Aziz Akhannouch Babel French Algeria French Montana French protectorate in Morocco Hindi Zahra Ibn Tumart Isabelle Eberhardt Karim El Ahmadi Libya Mali Mauritania Mbark Boussoufa Monica of Hippo Morocco Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco Muhammad al-Nasir Mustapha Hadji Nabil Dirar Niger

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved . culture.gouv.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'bar',
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  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i73380
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 07003204-n
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  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → language family
    Indigenous to → Maghreb
    Country → Morocco, Algeria, Libya +4
    Has part(s) → Northern Berber languages, Western Berber / Amazigh, Tuareg +3
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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