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What does this language sounds to you ?

ImHere

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It sounds like a mix of arabic with something else. I assume european? But also something jewish. Unique language. Sometimes it sounds like they got something in their mouths while speaking
 

Nassbean

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It sounds like a mix of arabic with something else. I assume european? But also something jewish. Unique language. Sometimes it sounds like they got something in their mouths while speaking

There is no european influence on their dialect and no surprise you detect a "semitic" link since berber and semitic branches are very close to each other and share many similarities :

The internal structure of Afroasiatic is far from resolved, and the literature contains many competing models (cf. review in Blench 2006). Nonetheless, the grammar of Berber aligns it strongly with Semitic, and most genealogical trees place these two branches in proximity. Berber verbal affixes are strikingly similar to those of Semitic, both in form, function and position as prefixes or suffixes, and must be inherited from the common ancestor of Berber and Semitic (Lipinski 2001:44).

Roger Blench, Linguistic and archaeological evidence for berber prehistory, p. 2
 

Hispania

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The scream that they make at the beginning sounds like the "irrintzi" (characteristic scream that is made in the basque country)



 

Nassbean

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The scream that they make at the beginning sounds like the "irrintzi" (characteristic scream that is made in the basque country)



Interesting, might be some very old med tradition that was preserved among berbers and basque. In the case of berbers we do have testimonies of such screams in ancient times.
 
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