Hannibal Good Article it could use a bit of revising but we can worry about that later Returning to the discussion about the coint uhhh guys Hannibal is Phoenician Caanite Yemen Migrents Caanite yemen Migrents Berber yemen Migrents Carthaginian Arab Berbers Berbers are the original and first inhabitants of North Africa in other words they are the natives of this part of Africa The name by which they are called berbers comes from the noun barbarians in english And this because Romans used to call All those who didn t speak their language barbarians And actually there are only us who are still called like this why did they use this term they just use this noun without any feeling of a pejorative meaning But to call themeselves in their language Tamazight they use imazighen the plural of Amazigh Many people ask about our origins and I always say that this question is sensless it s like asking what is the origins of the Indians Indians Don t have the same eyes as chinese but they are considered as asians so Just think about us it s an order that We are berbers Thus we are Africans Don t forget that those who first were called africans were berbers when you study about Rome and byzantine at school you ve probably heard about carthage and africans these africans were the great Phoenicians Berbers arabs Hence the Carthaginian Arabs But we can answer to which race the berbers belong to As you know I m sure you don t know there are 3 races in the world The Caucasoid race Europeans Jews hebrews Arabs etc The Negroid Race Blacks The Mongloid Race chinese japanese etc Berbers are predominately Caucasoid berbers of the sahara are mixed with sub saharans Their language is close to the Language spoken by the old egyptians Pharaohs in other words they speak an Afro asiatic language Hebrew Arab assyrian Old egyptian Berber etc SEMETIC XD To see how berbers look like click google To know how berber language sounds through music download this MP3 by clicking google The lands where berbers lived in the past were from the west of Old Egypt to the Canary islands But now Berbers constitute only 25 of the population in Algeria and 40 in morocco the berbers of the canary islands called guanches are spanish now and they ve lost their language url GENETICS And Origins of Berbers Origins of Berbers Final Genetic Make Up Mtdna North african cromagnoid Ibero maurusian U6 about 15 Iberian mtdna H pre HV V etc 60 80 Subsaharan Mtdna 2 20 Y dna Capsian E3b2 60 80 Arab J 10 300 30 in tunisians Subsaharan 3 8 RECENT European 0 10 Berber DNA Tested Genetical Studies begin to be done on berbers Be happy YIPEEE p Here is the Berber DNA compared to other ethnics So far our analyses have allowed a clear dissection of almost all NW African paternal lineages into several components with distinct historical origins In this way the historical origins of the NW African Y chromosome pool may be summarized as follows 75 NW African Upper Paleolithic H35 H36 and H38 13 Neolithic H58 and H71 4 historic European gene flow group IX H50 H52 and 8 recent sub Saharan African H22 and H28 Bosch et al Am J Hum Genet 2001 Caucasoid mtDNA maternal sequences labeled L3E and U6 were detected at frequencies of 96 in Moroccan Berbers 82 in Algerian Berbers and 78 in non Berber Moroccans compared with only 4 in a Senegalese population Rando et al Ann Hum Genet 1998 While the origins of the Sumerians whose language appears related to no known linguistic family remain a mystery the other people of the region were chiefly Semites Canaanites the Levant Amorites southwestern desert people Akkadians and Assyrians Mesopotamia Arameans Habiru Hebrews and Bedu Beduin Arabs of the southern desert The languages of these groups are closely related and also related more distantly to Hamitic languages which include ancient Egyptian Coptic and Ethiopian Throughout the Bronze Age there was a sporadic influx of nomads from Arabia into the area hostile at first but soon incorporated into the existing culture Later Indo European peoples migrated into the area Among them were the Hurrians who moved from Turkey in the North to Iraq in the 3rd milleneum BCE and brought the light horse drawn chariot and composite b