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 an awkward pronounciation of what we call locally 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/our idea.
- BEGUERADJ is a two Berber word compound meaning 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. In my native language: billa, bila and bile all mean without; whereas the last part il has 2 meanings: river and God. Hence Without God is the right interpretation of my first name 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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