Kabyle

E30636

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

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Kabyle canonical 25
Kabyle language 9
Kabyle people 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
Northern Berber language
closelyRelatedTo Chenoua
Mzab-Wargla
linked to: Chenoua

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 people
linked to: Kabyle
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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (42)

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

Berbers speaks Kabyle
Berbers hasSubgroup Kabyles
linked to: Kabyle
Tarifit closelyRelatedTo Kabyle
Kabyle primarySpeakers Kabyle people
linked to: Kabyle
Chaoui relatedEthnicGroup Kabyle
Rifian relatedTo Kabyle
Zenati Berber isRelatedTo Kabyle Berber
linked to: Kabyle
Tarifit language closelyRelatedTo Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle
Tfng writingSystemFor Kabyle
Boumerdès Province hasMajorEthnicGroup Kabyle people
linked to: Kabyle
Haut Commissariat à l’Amazighité focusesOn Kabyle
Kabylie hasEthnicGroup Kabyle people
linked to: Kabyle
Kabylie hasLanguage Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle
Kabylie knownFor Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle
Tizi Ouzou Province majorEthnicGroup Kabyle people
linked to: Kabyle
Shilha people relatedEthnicGroup Kabyle people
linked to: Kabyle
Béjaïa Province language Kabyle
Tamazight hasVariety Kabyle
Tamazight closelyRelatedTo Kabyle
Jijel Province languageUsed Kabyle Berber
linked to: Kabyle
Shawiya relatedGroup Kabyle
Djurdjura Mountains languageRegion Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle
Shawiya language closelyRelatedTo Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle
Chenoua language closelyRelatedTo Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle
Senhadja de Srair language relatedTo Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle
Chenoui closelyRelatedTo Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle
Zenati closelyRelatedTo Kabyle
Tamasheq closelyRelatedTo Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle
Amazigh hasLanguage Kabyle