Kabyle language
Berber language spoken by the Kabyle people
Kabyle edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kabyle is a Berber language (Kabyle: Ṯāqbāylīṯ, taqbaylit, pronounced /ˌθaq.βajˈliθ/) spoken by the Kabyle people. There are 3,123,000 speakers worldwide, the majority in Algeria, where there are more 2,000,000 speakers.
| Kabyle | |
|---|---|
 Taqbaylit (help·info) | |
| Native to | Algeria; immigrant communities in France, Belgium, Canada and elsewhere |
| Region | Kabylie (Provinces of Algiers, Béjaïa, BBA, Bouira, Boumerdes, Sétif, Tizi Ouzou, and parts of Jijel) |
| Ethnicity | Kabyle people |
Native speakers | 5 to 7 millions worldwide. |
| Berber Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | kab |
| ISO 639-3 | kab |
 Kabyle-speaking areas | |
Kabyle was (with some exceptions) rarely written before the 20th century; however, in recent years a small but increasing body of literature has been printed. The originally oral poetry of Si Mohand and Ait Menguellet are particularly notable in this respect.
