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Libyan Portrait #6
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
My #8 posting of Libyan Portraits Other portraits of series.
The Berbers (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. In actuality, Berber is a generic name given to numerous heterogeneous ethnic groups that share similar cultural, political, and economic practices. It is not a term originated by the group itself, and indeed the word may have been derived from the Latin 'barbari', the forerunner of the English word 'barbarian'. There are between 14 and 25 million speakers of Berber languages in North Africa (see population estimation), principally concentrated in Morocco and Algeria but with smaller communities as far east as Egypt and as far south as Burkina Faso.
Their languages, the Amazigh languages / Berber languages, form a branch of the Afroasiatic linguistic family comprising many closely related varieties, including Tarifit, Taqbaylit and Tashelhiyt, with a total of roughly 14-25 million speakers. A frequently used generic name for all berber languages is Tamazight, not to be confused with the language found in the High and Middle Atlas or Rif. |
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Γειά σου φίλε Γιάννη,
Μια ακόμη πολλή όμορφη φωτογραφία της σειράς σου πορτραίτων από την Λιβύη. Εκφραστική φυσιογνωμία, φωτισμός πολύ καλός, και τα χρώματα φυσικά.
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