Afroasiatic peoples

large language family of Africa and West Asia

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also known as Amazigh or Imazighen, are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Maghreb. They are primarily connected by their use of Berber languages, which are part of the Afroasiatic language family.

Amazigh (Berber) people of the Sahara desert with a nomadic pastoralist lifestyle

Copts (; ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to Egypt who have inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity. They are, like the broader Egyptian population, descended from the ancient Egyptians. Copts predominantly follow the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Alexandrian Greek Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. They are the largest Christian population in Egypt and the Middle East, as well as in Sudan and Libya. Copts account for roughly 5 to 15 percent of the population of Egypt.

ethnic group in the Sahel and West Africa

Egyptians (, ; , ; ) are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt. Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population is concentrated in the Nile Valley, a small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to the Mediterranean and enclosed by desert both to the east and to the west. This unique geography has been the basis of the development of Egyptian society since antiquity.

thumb|right|German 1932 ethnographic map portraying Hamites (in German: "Hamiten") as a subdivision of the Caucasian race ("Kaukasische Rasse"). (Meyers Blitz-Lexikon). thumb|Geographic identifications of Flavius Josephus, c. 100 AD; [[Japheth's sons shown in red, Ham's sons in blue, Shem's sons in green.]]

Soqotrans are a South Arabian ethnographic group native to the Yemeni island of Socotra. They speak the Soqotri language, a Modern South Arabian language in the Afroasiatic family.

The Mahris (), also known as the al-Mahra tribe (), are an Arab ethnographic group primarily inhabiting South Arabia especially in the Al-Mahra Governorate in Yemen and the island of Socotra in the Guardafui Channel. They are named after Mahra bin Haydan. They can also be found in the Sultanate of Oman, and the eastern region of the Arabian Peninsula.

archaeological culture

Group of archaeological cultures of the Rift Valley of East Africa

northeast African ethnic group