Editing Kabyle language (section)

{{Short description|Berber language of northern Algeria}}
{{Distinguish|Kabiye language|Khabi language}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Kabyle
| altname          = Kabylian
| nativename       = {{lang|kab|Taqbaylit}} / {{lang|kab-Tfng|ⵜⴰⵇⴱⴰⵢⵍⵉⵜ}} / {{lang|kab-Arab|ثاقبايليث}}
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|ber|θɐqβæjlɪθ||Kab-Taqbaylit.ogg}}
| states           = [[Algeria]]
| region           = [[Kabylia]] ([[Provinces of Algeria|Provinces]] of [[Béjaïa Province|Béjaïa]], [[Bouïra Province|Bouira]], [[Boumerdès Province|Boumerdes]], [[Tizi Ouzou Province|Tizi Ouzou]])
| ethnicity        = [[Kabyle people|Kabyles]]
| speakers         = 3 million in Algeria
| date             = 2004, 9.4% of the population
| ref              = <ref name=laval/>{{efn|name=LeclercUpdated2022}}
| speakers2        = 1 million diaspora<ref name=e26/>
| familycolor      = Afro-Asiatic
| fam2             = [[Berber languages|Berber]]
| fam3             = [[Northern Berber languages|Northern]]
| stand1           = [[Standard Algerian Berber]]
| iso2             = kab
| iso3             = kab
| glotto           = kaby1243
| glottorefname    = Kabyle
| script           = [[Berber Latin alphabet|Latin]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radioalgerie.dz/news/fr/article/20180109/130683.html|title=Nouria Benghabrit : l'enseignement de Tamazight sera élargi à 10 autres wilayas et bénéficiera de 300 nouveaux postes budgétaires|website=Rafio Algérienne|quote=la graphie Tifinagh pour le Targui, Latine pour la Kabylie et Arabe pour le M’Zab et les Aurès|access-date=2019-02-03|archive-date=2022-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818054236/https://radioalgerie.dz/news/fr/article/20180109/130683.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Tifinagh]] (limited use), [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02945641/document|title=Kabyle in Arabic Script: A History without Standardisation|access-date=2022-10-13|archive-date=2022-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013164209/https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02945641/document|url-status=live}}</ref>
| map              = Kabyle_language_percent_speakers.png
| mapcaption       = Percentage of Kabyle speakers in northern Algeria{{image reference needed|date=December 2022}}
}}

'''Kabyle''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|b|aɪ|l}}) or '''Kabylian''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|b|ɪ|l|i|ən}}; native name: ''Taqbaylit'' {{IPA|ber|θɐqβæjlɪθ||Kab-Taqbaylit.ogg}}) is a [[Berber languages|Berber language]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kabyle {{!}} Ethnologue Free |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kab/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Ethnologue (Free All) |language=en |archive-date=2023-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309075203/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kab/ |url-status=live }}</ref> spoken by the [[Kabyle people]] in the north and northeast of [[Algeria]]. It is spoken primarily in [[Kabylia]], east of the capital [[Algiers]] and in Algiers itself, but also by various groups near [[Blida]], such as the Beni Salah and Beni Bou Yaqob.

Estimating the number of Berber speakers is very difficult and figures are often contested.{{sfn|Chaker|1983|p=7}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=George L. |author-link=George L. Campbell|title=Compendium of the World's Languages
 |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |others=Gareth King |isbn=978-0-203-10653-2 |edition=3 |location=Abingdon, Oxon |oclc=854759616|page=223}}</ref> A 2004 estimate was that 9.4% of the Algerian population spoke Kabyle.<ref name=laval/>{{efn|name=LeclercUpdated2022|If that percentage held in 2022, the number of Kabyle speakers in Algeria would be 4.3 million.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Population Dashboard -Algeria |url=https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-population/DZ |access-date=2023-02-26 |website=United Nations Population Fund |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401022803/https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-population/DZ |url-status=live }}</ref>}} The number of diaspora speakers has been estimated at one million.<ref name=e26>{{e26|kab}}</ref>