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Kabyle
Also known as Kabylian, Kabyle language, Taqbaylit
Berber language spoken by the Kabyle people
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Kabyle is a Berber language spoken by the Kabyle people, primarily in the Kabylie region of Algeria. It remains an important part of Kabyle cultural identity and is one of the major Berber languages still actively used today.
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- Commons category
- Kabyle language
- Wikimedia language code
- kab
- native label
- Taqbaylit
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 5586000
- P10369
- Islay
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Kabyle (/kəˈbaɪl/) or Kabylian (/kəˈbɪliən/; native name: Taqbaylit [θɐqβæjlɪθ] ) is a Berber language spoken by the Kabyle people in the north and northeast of Algeria. It is spoken primarily in Kabylia.
Estimating the number of Berber speakers is very difficult and figures are often contested. A 2004 estimate was that 9.4% of the Algerian population spoke Kabyle. The number of diaspora speakers has been estimated at one million.