<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains Arabic text . Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains Arabic text . Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols . </Td> </Tr> <P> Berbers (Berber: ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ Mazices / Imaziɣen / Imazighen singular: ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ Amaziɣ / Amazigh) are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to North Africa . They are distributed in an area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Niger River . Historically, they spoke Berber languages, which together form the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family . Since the Muslim conquest of North Africa in the seventh century, a large number of Berbers inhabiting the Maghreb (Tamazgha) have acquired different degrees of knowledge of varieties of the languages of North Africa . After the colonization of North Africa by France, "the French government succeeded in integrating the French language in Algeria by making French the official national language and requiring all education to take place in French ." Foreign languages, mainly French and to some degree Spanish, inherited from former European colonial powers, are used by most educated Berbers in Algeria and Morocco in some formal contexts, such as higher education or business . </P> <P> Today, most Berber people live in North Africa, mainly in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia & Libya; Small Berber populations are also found in Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Egypt, as well as large immigrant communities living in France, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and other countries of Europe . </P>

Who are the berbers and what did they do