Guanches (also: Guanchis or Guanchetos) are the aboriginal Berber inhabitants of the Canary Islands. It is believed that they migrated to the archipelago around 1000 BCE or perhaps earlier. While it is generally considered that the Guanches no longer exist as a distinct ethnicity, traces of their culture can still be found intermixed within Canari...
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The Guanches were the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands. They became extinct as a separate nation long ago, although Guanche blood probably flows in the veins of many of the present inhabitants. They practised the embalming of the dead. The few words of their language which remain seem cognate to the Berber tongue.
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