Arab-Berber (Arabic: العرب والبربر‎‎; French: Arabo-berbères) is a term to denote an inhabitant of the North African Maghreb who is of mixed Arab and Berber origin and whose native language is a dialect of Arabic or more specifically Maghrebi Arabic and who also has an Arab ethnic identity. The Arab-Berber identity came into being as a direct result of the Arab conquest of North Africa, and the intermarriage between the Arabian people who immigrated to those regions and local mainly Berber people; in addition, Banu Hilal and Sulaym Arab tribes originating in the Arabian Peninsula invaded the region and intermarried with the local mainly Berber populations, and were a major factor in the linguistic, cultural and ethnic Arabization of the Maghreb.