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Berber Americans, American Berbers, or Amazigh Americans, are Americans of Berber (or Amazigh) descent. Although a part of the population of the Maghreb (in the North Africa) is of Berber descent, only 1,327 people declared Berber ancestry in the 2000 US census .
Byzantine authors mention the Mazikes (Amazigh) as tribal people raiding the monasteries of Cyrenaica. Garamantia was a notable Berber kingdom that flourished in the Fezzan area of modern-day Libya in the Sahara desert between 400 BC and 600 AD. Roman-era Cyrenaica became a center of early Christianity.
Shortly after, on December 27, 2017, the Algerian Academy of Amazigh Language was established to support its development and promotion. Its missions are diverse and range from the study of the central component of Algerian society: the Berber (or Amazigh) identity, to the promotion of the teaching of the Berber language in schools. It is also a ...
[1] [2] [3] They are collectively known as Berbers or Amazigh in English. [4] The native plural form Imazighen is sometimes also used in English. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While "Berber" is more widely known among English-speakers, its usage is a subject of debate, due to its historical background as an exonym and present equivalence with the Arabic word for ...
IRCAM published numerous books on various subjects, such as history, culture, geography, including Amazigh language textbooks, dictionaries and translations. One of the institute's key activities was issuing of the Asīnāg Journal presenting articles, reviews and, what in general constitutes international dialogue on the Amazigh cause. [4]
Central Atlas Tamazight speakers refer to themselves as Amazigh (pl. Imazighen), an endonymic ethnonym whose etymology is uncertain, but may translate as "free people". [14] [15] The term Tamazight, the feminine form of Amazigh, refers to the language. Both words are also used self-referentially by other Berber groups, although Central Atlas ...
In the 1st century AD, Lucan uses Mazax, the singular form of Mazaces, as a collective noun for the people. [3] In the 3rd century, the Chronicle of Pseudo-Hippolytus placed the Mazices on the same level as the Mauri, Gaetuli and Afri. [1] In the last decade of the 4th century, the Mazices and Austurians began ravaging Cyrenaica.
The Amazigh Cultural Association in America (ACAA) is a non-profit organization established in New Jersey. This organization's goal is to promote the Amazigh (Berber) languages and culture [ 1 ] in the world, based on the fact that, due to the North African emigration, today there are people of Amazigh origin worldwide. [ 2 ]