For other meanings of Barbarian see Barbarian (disambiguation)

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

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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 babble rhubarb in modern English. Related imitative forms are found in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit barbara-, "stammering" or "one with curly hair" , and the forms are connected to a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *baba-, "to stammer".

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Matfield hails Barbarians' effort, http://www.myfeedme.com/article/6086821.html
MFM_rugby (Robert Steele) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:26:10 -0000
Matfield hails Barbarians' effort, http://www.myfeedme.com/article/6086821.html
@paulcarvill I love Settlers, I won last night but lost this morning. The Traders & Barbarians and Cities & Knights expansions are also fun!
tnyuan (Tian) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:57:14 -0000
@paulcarvill I love Settlers, I won last night but lost this morning. The Traders & Barbarians and Cities & Knights expansions are also fun!
bravo!!! today education has bound mankind with iron chains nd turned them into what v call modern civilized barbarians...
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