Kabyle language

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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.
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Berber Kabyle
Writing system	Berber Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-2	kab
ISO 639-3	kab
Kabyle-speaking areas
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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.

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