Northern Berber

E159521

Afroasiatic language Berber language variety language branch

Northern Berber is a major branch of the Berber (Amazigh) languages spoken across North Africa, encompassing varieties such as Kabyle and forming part of the Afroasiatic language family.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Northern Berber canonical	14
Northern Berber languages	12
Northern Amazigh	1
Northern Berber language	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Afroasiatic language ⓘ Berber language variety ⓘ language branch ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Eastern Berber ⓘ Berber languages ⓘ surface form: Tuareg languages
hasAlternativeName	Northern Berber ⓘ surface form: Northern Amazigh Zenati–Kabyle–Atlas Berber ⓘ
hasISOClassification	ISO 639-5: ber (macro-language, Berber) ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature	gender distinction (masculine and feminine) ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ root-and-pattern morphology ⓘ state alternation (free vs construct state) ⓘ verb–subject–object basic word order (often) ⓘ
hasMajorVariety	Central Atlas Tamazight ⓘ Chenoua ⓘ Kabyle ⓘ Middle Atlas ⓘ surface form: Middle Atlas Berber Riffian ⓘ Shawiya ⓘ Shilha ⓘ Tarifit ⓘ Tashelhit ⓘ Tuareg (sometimes excluded or marginal) ⓘ Zenati ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Arabic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Arabic script Latin alphabet ⓘ Tifinagh ⓘ
influencedBy	Arabic ⓘ French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
languageBranchOf	Berber languages ⓘ surface form: Berber
languageFamily	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ surface form: Afroasiatic
partOf	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ surface form: Afroasiatic language family Berber languages ⓘ surface form: Amazigh languages
region	Atlas Mountains ⓘ Kabylie ⓘ North Africa ⓘ surface form: Maghreb Rif Mountains ⓘ
spokenIn	Algeria ⓘ Canary Islands ⓘ surface form: Canary Islands (historically) Libya ⓘ Morocco ⓘ North Africa ⓘ Timbuktu Region ⓘ surface form: Northern Mali Northern Niger ⓘ Tunisia ⓘ
status	cluster of mutually related varieties rather than a single standardized language ⓘ
subclassOf	Berber languages ⓘ
usedBy	Amazigh ⓘ surface form: Amazigh people Berber ethnic groups ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Northern Berber
Description of subject: Northern Berber is a major branch of the Berber (Amazigh) languages spoken across North Africa, encompassing varieties such as Kabyle and forming part of the Afroasiatic language family.

Referenced by (28)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kabyle → subfamily → Northern Berber ⓘ

Shilha → languageBranch → Northern Berber ⓘ

Zenati languages → languageBranchOf → Northern Berber ⓘ

Siwi → subclassOf → Northern Berber ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northern Berber language

Shenwa → subfamilyOf → Northern Berber ⓘ

Shenwa → languageFamily → Northern Berber ⓘ

Riffians → dialectOf → Northern Berber ⓘ

Central Atlas Tamazight → languageGroup → Northern Berber ⓘ

Rifian → subfamilyOf → Northern Berber ⓘ