I am Billal BEGUERADJ from Algeria. I’m into Software Development & Information Security.
I belong to the native people of North Africa. My native language is Tamazight and our alphabet is Tifinagh:
- Algeria is pronounced locally as “Dzair” which means “The Zirid lands”. Id est, Algeria is named after the Berber Zirid dynatsy
- Tamazight is a name feminization of “Amazigh” which means the “free man” or “the man who loves his freedom”.
- Tifinagh: When the Phoenicians settled on our lands (800 to 1100 BC) and brought their own alphabet from which emanates the Latin one, they accused my ancestors -who already had their own alphabet- of plagiarism. My ancestors insisted that our alphabet was invented by them way before the Phoenicians came. And that is what Tifinagh means: “our invention” or “our idea”.
- BEGUERADJ: means, in my native language, the man who owns gold.
- Billal: although it is commonly used by Arabs as a name for men, it’s not an Arabic name and has no meaning in Arabic language. But it means water in Aramaic. Surprisingly enough, my first name has also a meaning in my native language: billa, bila and bile all mean without; whereas il has 2 meanings: river and God. I prefer the second interpretation of my name: Without God as it makes sense and I’m atheist. Billal/Bilal is also close both in meaning and pronunciation to what is known in Hebrew as Belial. In short, my full name means, in my native language: The atheist rich man.
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