Kabyle

Meaning

1. Pertaining to these people or their language.
2. A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria, speaking the Kabyle language.
3. A Northern Berber language of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic language family, spoken by over 3,000,000 people in Algeria; native name Taqbaylit.

Etymology / origin

From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”), perhaps via French kabyle.

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