Hannibal   Good Article it could use a bit of revising but we can worry about that later Returning to the discussion about the cointuhhh guys Hannibal is PhoenicianCaaniteYemen Migrents Caaniteyemen Migrents Berberyemen Migrents Carthaginian Arab  Berbers   Berbers are the original and first inhabitants of NorthAfrica 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 didnt 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 its like asking what is the origins of the Indians Indians Dont have the same eyes as chinese but they are considered as asians so Just think about us its an order that We are berbers Thus we are Africans   Dont forget that those who first were called africans were berbers when you study about Rome and byzantine at school youve probably heard about carthage and africans these africans were the great PhoeniciansBerbers arabs Hence the Carthaginian Arabs   But we can answer to which race the berbers belong to As you know Im sure you dont know there are  races in the world   The Caucasoid race Europeans Jewshebrews Arabs etc   The Negroid Race Blacks   The Mongloid Race chinese japanese etc   Berbers are predominately Caucasoid berbers of the sahara are mixed with subsaharans Their language is close to the Language spoken by the old egyptians Pharaohs in other words they speak an Afroasiatic language Hebrew Arab assyrian Old egyptian Berberetc SEMETIC XD   To see how berbers look like click google   To know how berber language sounds through music download this MP by clicking google   The lands where berbers lived in the past were from the west of Old Egypt to the Canaryislands But now Berbers constitute only  of the population in Algeria and  in morocco the berbers of the canary islands called guanches are spanish now and theyve lost their language   urlhttpimazighenproboardscomindexcgiboardhistoryactiondisplaythreadurl     GENETICS And Origins of Berbers  Origins of Berbers  Final Genetic Make Up  Mtdna    North african cromagnoid Iberomaurusian U about   Iberian mtdna H pre HV Vetc   Subsaharan Mtdna    Ydna    Capsian Eb     Arab J   in tunisians  Subsaharan   RECENT European   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 Africanpaternal lineages into several components with distinct historical origins In this way the historical origins of the NW African Ychromosome pool may be summarized as follows  NW African Upper Paleolithic H H and H  Neolithic H and H  historic European gene flow group IX H H and  recent subSaharan African H and H Bosch et al Am J Hum Genet     Caucasoid mtDNA maternal sequences labeled LE and U were detected at frequencies of  in Moroccan Berbers  in Algerian Berbers and  in nonBerber Moroccans compared with only  in a Senegalese population Rando et al Ann Hum Genet       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 IndoEuropean peoples migrated into the area Among them were the Hurrians who moved from Turkey in the North to Iraq in the rd milleneum BCE and brought the light horsedrawn chariot and composite b