kondaira | Euskara has never been in contact with the Berber dialects that are currently spoken in the Maghreb. However, it has similar words to the ones of those languages that perhaps were introduced in Euskara through the Iberian language.
According to the theory of the Proto-Basque expansion that took place after the last Ice Age, which is based on the most recent research on Archaeogenetics,
those similarities could be due to migrations of Proto-Basque human
groups to Africa. This ancient population could leave words and even
Basque verbal morphemes during the miscegenation process with the
Hamitic peoples of northern Africa that have been kept in their
languages until the present day.
Thus,
it can be explained the existence of Basque words in Berber, Guanche
(Canary Islands), Somali, Ethiopian and in old Egyptian (they are all
Hamitic languages), as well as the vigesimal numeral system that is kept in the Tachelhit dialect of Berber.
Due
to those similarities between Basque and Hamitic words, there was
proposed the Basque-Berber theory which considered Euskara as related to
Berber. This theory was abandoned some years ago since the similarities
found were only lexical or lexicographical while they are very
different today, as in the past, when concerning syntax and grammar.
However, some similarities are observed especially in the verbal
articulation as well as the usage of some particles, as stated above.
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