Kabyle language
| Kabyle | ||
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Spoken in |
 Algeria , also in the diaspora in Europe
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| speaker | 2.5 to 6 million | |
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| Official status | ||
| Other official status in |
Algeria
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
kab |
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| ISO 639-3 |
kab |
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Kabyle (proper name ⵜⴰⵇⴱⴰⵢⵍⵉⵜ Taqbaylit in tifinagh ) is mainly in the north of Algeria spoken Berber language .
distribution
Estimates of the number of Kabyle speakers in Algeria vary between 2.5 and 6 million, plus speakers in the Algerian diaspora in Europe. The speakers of Kabyle are usually trilingual with Arabic and French . Kabyle is now also used as a spoken official language in Algeria.
Radio Algeria's second national program is broadcast in Kabyle. The singer Mohamed Ben Hanafi (Mohamed Aït Tahar, 1927–2012) made great contributions to the preservation and revival of the oral tradition through his broadcasts and his own texts.
An independent literature has been developing since the end of the 20th century. The traditional center of the language is Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia .
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In the past the Arabic script was used, today the Latin script is more common. In the 1970s there were attempts to establish the Tifinagh script of Tamascheq , the language of the Tuareg .
