The word barbarian generally refers to an uncivilized, uncultured person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, insensitive person of behavior inacceptable in a civilized society. While the latter sense is always pejorative, the former one has not invariably been so, as described below.
Greek origin of the term
The word "Barbarian" comes from the French' or Medieval Latin', from Latin', from Latin ', from the ancient Greek word which meant a non-Greek, someone whose (first) language was not Greek. The word is imitative, the bar-bar representing the impression of random hubbub produced by hearing spoken a language that one cannot understand, similar to blah blah or babblerhubarb in modern English. Related imitative forms are found in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskritbarbara-, "stammering" or "one with curly hair" , and the forms are connected to a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European*baba-, "to stammer".
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