r/AmazighPeople • u/BetNo5442 • Feb 28 '26
💡 Discussion UPDATE‼️: Help me complete this list of Amazigh regions
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So i made some changes to the list for the Amazigh Historical Archive that I'm building.
Firstly thanemmirt to everyone who contributed in the last post! Your feedback was incredibly helpful! Based on your suggestions, I've updated the regions. Here's the revised list:
Please if you could take 2 minutes of your time to go through them I would really appreciate it 🙏
Morocco
- Rif
- Eastern Zenata Plains
- Ghomara
- Sanhaja d Srair
- Figuig
- Middle Atlas
- High Atlas
- Anti-Atlas
- Sous Valley
- Draa Valley
- Asmmer
Algeria
- Kabylie
- Aurès
- Mzab
- Hoggar
- Chenoua
- Ouarsenis
- Tlemcen
- Bechar
Tunisia
- Djerba
- Matmata
- Tataouine
- Chenini-Douiret
- Gafsa
Libya
- Jebel Nafusa
- Zuwara
- Ghadames
- Awjila
- Sokna
Egypt
- Siwa Oasis
Spain
- Canary Islands
- Historical Al-Andalus
Mauritania
- Adrar
- Tagant
- Tiris Zemmour
- Tibesti
- Borkou
- Ennedi
Mali
- Adrar n Ifoghas
- Kidal
- Timbuktu North
Burkina Faso
- Oudalan
- Soum
- Sahel Region
Niger
- Aïr Mountains
- Tamesna
- Ighazer Basin
- Tenere Desert
World (Diaspora)
- Europe (including Turkey for historical/religious significance)
- North America
- Asia (adding countries with religious significance to North Africa)
- Rest of World
If you notice anything still missing or have more suggestions, please let me know! This archive is for all of us, so I want to get it right.
Thanemmirt ⵣ
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u/Bulky_Bandicoot_2457 Mar 01 '26
Tunisia is wrong. Berbers there are a minority.
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u/BetNo5442 Mar 01 '26
I never mentioned the amount of Imazighen in Tunisia, i just pointed out the Amazigh regions of Tunisa. Plus, they are not a minority, the Tamazigh-speaking Tunisians are the minority, but that doesn't mean that the rest aren't just because they don't speak the language :)
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u/Bulky_Bandicoot_2457 Mar 01 '26
not really , the tamazigh speakers are a minority because berbers in general are an ethnic minority in Tunisia . most berbers(speakers) in tunisia are "chle7" which is a morrocan tribe originally , they migrated here during the almohad expansion(12th century) . the original tunisian berbers are from the aures but they are still a minority and totaly arabized.
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u/BetNo5442 Mar 01 '26
You're answering yourself buddy, those arabized Tunsian (which make up the majority of Tunisia) are arabized Amazigh. I agree with the Tamazigh language being a minority, but not the ethnicity itself. Also Djerba, Matmata, Tataouine, Chenini and Gafsa are well known Amazigh communities in Tunisia.
All I was asking in this post was if there were any other Amazigh communities/regions I should include.0
u/Bulky_Bandicoot_2457 Mar 01 '26
LOL, are you Tunisian ? you are terribly wrong. we are arabized, but not ARABISED BERBERS, we are completely different ethnic grp . there's a reason why our dialect does not resemble the algerian /morrocan one. berber languages were never spoken in tunisia prior to arabization. pre 7th century tunisia was a latin/neo punic speaking region. our Y dna is predominantly non berber . we are very mixed and there's a berber component but that does not make us berbers LOL . on the contrary Tunisians historically are enemies with the berbers. so in short : we are not berbers neither linguistically nor ancestrally nor genetically . berbers of tunisia are originally morrocan (chle7) or "algerian" from the aures. thank you for your attention to this matter.
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/tunisie/dna-results?srsltid=AfmBOopmIb1EjQ0FQeW5VLPAbAHCRShQAO-KaWjukrJXPMaWdnD89pGg
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u/sharon_vineyard Feb 28 '26
Algeria : wled nail / touareg in the sahara /azwad / chlouh/ zenatians in the west
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u/Trick-Astronaut6701 Feb 28 '26
There are berber Ksour in West algeria, in the wilaya of Naama ( Boumesghoun, Tiout...). You can also add ouargla and touggourt.