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Berber comes from the Arabic word al barbar البربر, which comes from the onomatopoeia Bar-Bar, used by Greeks as Bla-Bla to describe other languages. Bar-Bar was adopted by the Arabic speakers to refer to the original inhabitants of North Africa, west and south of Egypt as a non civilized population. The word 'Berber' is itself related to the older word Barbaroi, which is used in the document Periplus Maris Erythaie (Periplus of the Red Sea), a document written in Greek in the middle of the first century A.D. This document indicates that the Barbaroi, meaning the inhabitats of northen Somali coast, were trading with the Ancient Egyptians, Romans and inhabitants of Pre-Islamic Arabia. It also gives the names of some of the ports like Berbera. Nowadays the word Berber is used to refer to the Amazigh. Historically the term was applied by ancient Greek and medieval Arab geographers to the original inhabitants of Somalia.
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Berbers (Berber: ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⴻⵏ Imazighen / Imaziɣen) are the indigenous ethnic group of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke the Berber language or varieties of it, which together form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic linguistic family. Today, varieties of Maghrebi colloquial Arabic are spoken by a large portion of Berbers besides the Berber language itself. Foreign languages like French are used by the educated in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Spanish is also known by some Berbers in Morocco and in the annexed Western Sahara and Italian in Libya. This presence of European languages was due to Europe's occupation and colonization of the Berber world. Today, most Berber-speaking people live in Morocco and Algeria, smaller Berber-speaking populations are scattered throughout Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Mali and Niger, as well as various diasporas living in Europe.
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Plot: Death has come to a small southern town. A biological weapon has been unleashed, driving residents insane before killing them. A small group of soldiers and civilians take refuge in a bunker for chemical warfare. Their sanctuary may turn into their tomb. Water is low and one of them will do what ever it takes to stay alive. When the end of the world comes are you safe in ... The Shelter
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Keywords: barber, black-comedy, car, car-accident, coach, dinner, fight, flashback, footballer, germanyActors: Zaim Muzaferija (actor), Svetozar Cvetkovic (actor), Stole Arandjelovic (actor), Zoran Cvijanovic (actor), Meto Jovanovski (actor), Petre Arsovski (actor), Jordanco Cevrevski (actor), Zivojin Pavlovic (writer), Dragica Markovic (miscellaneous crew), Blagoja Spirkovski-Dzumerko (actor), Milica Stojanova (actress), Sabina Ajrula (actress), Vanco Petrusevski (actor), Mirko Kovac (writer), Jovica Mihajlovski (actor),
Plot: After a quarrel with his wife, a man leaves their apartment with one suitcase only. Having slept in a train station, the police legitimates him and found him suspicious. Soon he'll find himself locked in a prison with several other, mostly innocent people. The true horror begins only then.
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Genres: Drama,Actors: Gülen Kipçak (actress), Timuçin Caymaz (actor), Yüksel Gözen (actor), Sener Sen (actor), Aydemir Akbas (actor), Saltuk Kaplangi (actor), Ülkü Özen (actress), Abdi Algül (actor), Özcan Özgür (actor), Sabahat Izgü (actress), Cevdet Arikan (actor), Aysen Atav (actress), Alpay Izer (writer), Mehmet Ali Güngör (actor), Elif Pektas (actress),
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Genres: Drama,