Kabyle language
Kabyle edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| 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 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 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.
