Editing Kabyle language (section)

===Dialects===
[[File:Dialectes kabyles.PNG|thumb|right|Geographic distribution of Kabyle dialects<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Naït-Zerrad |first=K. |date=2004-05-01 |title=Kabylie : Dialectologie |url=https://journals.openedition.org/encyclopedieberbere/1433 |journal=Encyclopédie berbère |language=fr |issue=26 |pages=4067–4070 |doi=10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1433 |issn=1015-7344 |doi-access=free |access-date=2022-12-23 |archive-date=2017-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011132959/http://encyclopedieberbere.revues.org/1433 |url-status=live }}</ref>]]

Many{{Who|date=July 2020}} identify two dialects: Greater Kabylie (west) and Lesser Kabylie (east), but the reality is more complex than that, Kabyle dialects constitute a [[dialect continuum]] that can be divided into four main dialects (from west to east):

*Far-western: villages such as Tizi-Ghennif, Boghni and Draa el Mizan.
*Western: villages such as At Menguellat, At Yiraten, At Aïssi, At Yanni, 
*Eastern: 
** Eastern-West: villages such as At Mlikeche, Eastern-center: At Aïdel, At Khiar
** Eastern-East: villages such as At Sliman.
*Far-eastern: villages such as Aokas, Melbou, At Smail. Also known as Tasaḥlit and considered as a separate language by some according to ''[[Ethnologue]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kab|title=Amazigh|access-date=2018-06-13|archive-date=2023-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309075203/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kab/|url-status=live}}</ref> Mutual intelligibility with Far-western is difficult to absent.

{| class="wikitable" 
|+ Phonological differences
|-
! colspan=1 rowspan=2 |
! colspan=1 rowspan=2 | Far-western 
! colspan=1 rowspan=2 | Western
! colspan=2 rowspan=1 | Eastern
! colspan=1 rowspan=2 | Far-eastern 
|- style="text-align:center;"
!  West || East 
|- style="text-align:center;"
!Gemination of /w/
| bbʷ || bbʷ || ggʷ || ββ || ww
|- style="text-align:center;"
!Assimilation of /n/ + /w/ 
| bbʷ || bbʷ || ! colspan=2 | ggʷ || nw
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Labialization
| ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || ✗ || ✗
|- style="text-align:center;"
!Assimilation of /n/ + /y/ 
| gg || gg || gg || yy || y
|- style="text-align:center;"
! affricates /ts/ and /dz/ 
| ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || ✗ || ✗
|- style="text-align:center;"
! ḍ 
| ḍ || ḍ || ḍ || ṭ || ṭ 
|}

{| class="wikitable" 
|+ Grammatical differences
|-
! colspan=1 rowspan=2 |
! colspan=1 rowspan=2 | Far-western 
! colspan=1 rowspan=2 | Western
! colspan=2 rowspan=1 | Eastern
! colspan=2 rowspan=1 | Far-eastern 
|- style="text-align:center;"
!  West || East ||  || Aokas
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Verb-framing with n
|  ✓ || ✓ ||  ! colspan=2 | ✗ || ! colspan=2 | ✗
|- style="text-align:center;"
!  Possessive pronouns <br/> (ex: 3rd m)
|  -nnes || -is, -ines ||  ! colspan=2 | -is, -ines ||! colspan=2 | -is
|- style="text-align:center;"
! Aorist preverb ad
|   ad ||  ad ||  ! colspan=2 |  ad || ad || di
|}

====Lexical differences====

With the exception of the far-eastern dialect, much of the vocabulary of Kabyle is common across its dialects, though some lexical differences exist, e.g. the word ''dream'' in English (from west to east): bargu, argu, argu, bureg.