Kabyle

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Kabyle is a major Northern Berber language spoken primarily in the Kabylie region of Algeria by the Kabyle people.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Kabyle people 1
Kabyles 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
Northern Berber language
closelyRelatedTo Chenoua
Chenoua
surface form: Mzab-Wargla

Shawiya
country Algeria
family Berber languages
glottocode kaby1243
hasAcademyOrBody Haut Commissariat à l’Amazighité (for Amazigh languages)
hasDialects central Kabyle varieties
eastern Kabyle varieties
western Kabyle varieties
hasFeature clitic pronouns
gender system
masculine and feminine genders
preverbal particles
rich verbal inflection
root-and-pattern morphology
state alternation of nouns
hasStandardizationEfforts orthographic norms in Latin script
languageCodeISO639-2 kab
languageCodeISO639-3 kab
languageFamilyBranch Zenati (often classified)
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
French
Latin
macrolanguageGrouping Tamazight
morphology agglutinative features
nonconcatenative morphology
primaryRegion Kabylie
primarySpeakers Kabyle self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kabyle people
recognizedStatus part of Tamazight, a national and official language of Algeria
region Bouira Province
Boumerdès Province
Béjaïa Province
Djurdjura Mountains
Jijel Province
Tell Atlas
Tizi Ouzou Province
spokenInDiaspora Belgium
Canada
France
Germany
subfamily Northern Berber
typology SVO word order
usedIn Kabyle literature
Kabyle media
Kabyle music
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
Tifinagh

Referenced by (8)

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

Tarifit closelyRelatedTo Kabyle
Berbers hasSubgroup Kabyle
this entity surface form: Kabyles
Kabyle primarySpeakers Kabyle self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kabyle people
Chaoui relatedEthnicGroup Kabyle
Berbers speaks Kabyle