Kabyle
taqbaylit
Kabyle is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Algeria, by about 5.6 million people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Kabyle () or Kabylian (; 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.
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Written down
Imdanen akken ma llan ttlalen-d d ilelliyen gdan deg lḥeṛma d yizerfan , ɣur-sen leɛqel d tefrit, yessefk ad tili tegmat gar-asen.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Kabyle
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| child | agrud | |
| man | argaz | |
| woman | tameṭṭut | |
| name | isem | |
| friend | amdakkel | |
| eye | tiṭ | |
| tooth | tuɣmest | |
| hand | afus | |
| heart | ul | |
| water | aman | |
| moon | ayyur | |
| snow | adfel | |
| mountain | adrar | |
| dog | aydi | |
| cat | amcic | |
| bird | agḍiḍ | |
| cow | tafunast | |
| one | yiwen | |
| five | semmus | |
| hundred | temya | |
| I | nekk | |
| eat | ečč | |
| see | ẓer | |
| coffee | taɣlust | |
| bread | aɣrum | |
| honey | tament | |
| wine | ccṛab | |
| banana | lbanan | |
| hello | azul | |
| yes | ih |
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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