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	Kabyle language resources
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		...kaa Kara-Kalpak kab Kabyle kac Kachin kal KalÃ¢tdlisut kam Kamba kan Kannada kar...
		Kabyle kabyle kab Kachin kachin kac Kalaallisut; Greenlandic groenlandais kal kl Kalmyk kalmouk xal Kamba kamba kam Kannada kannada kan kn Kanuri kanouri kau kr Karachay-Balkar karatchaÃ¯ balkar krc Kara-Kalpak karakalpak...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Kabyle.html (1317 words)

	Kabyle language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Kabyle is a Berber language with about 3 million speakers, most of whom live in Algeria, mainly in Kabylie in the north of the country.
		The Tifinagh alphabet for Kabyle was developed by the Agraw Amazigh (Académie Berbère) from the Tifinagh script for Tuareg, and is used in a number of periodicals and on political posters.
		Kabyle has no official status in Algeria, but there some radio and TV programmes in the language, and it is taught in schools in Kabyle speaking areas.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/kabyle.php (224 words)

	Kabyle people
		The Kabyles are a Berber people whose traditional homeland is Kabylie or Kabylia in northeastern Algeria.
		Since the Berber Spring in 1980, Kabyles have been at the forefront of the fight for the official recognition of the Berber language in Algeria (see Languages of Algeria) "Al Qabayel" ("tribes"), but its inhabitants call it "Tamurt Idurar" (Land of Mountains) or "Tamurt Leqvayel" (Land of Kabyles).
		The principal language used by this people is Kabyle, used both at home and professionally.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DKabyles%26type%3Den (1261 words)

	Kabyle Translation Services - English to Kabyle Translations
		We have opened a new business unit and are now providing comprehensive translator staffing solutions for small, medium, and large companies which are in need of having full-time language professionals on their team.
		Our Kabyle translation team has many experienced document translators who specialize in translating many different types of documents including birth and death certificates, marriage certificates and divorce decrees, diplomas and transcripts, and any other Kabyle document you may need translated.
		Kabyle is a Berber language spoken by the Kabyle people.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/kabyle.shtml (468 words)

	Grammaire moderne du kabyle
		In contrast, this Modern Kabyle Grammar describes contemporary Kabyle as it is spoken, and as it appears in Kabyle literary works written since the end of the nineteenth century.
		We should be grateful to Kamal Naït Zerrad or devoting four chapters to this aspect of the language.
		This is, in fact, the first piece of literary work written in Kabyle by a Kabyle, Belaïd At Ali, whose work deserves to be better known.
	www.mondeberbere.com /langue/grammairekabyle/present-en.htm (323 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:kab
		Speakers have pride in Kabyle and resistance to Arabic.
		Arabic is also used as second language, after French.
		The name 'Kabyle' is reported by some sources to derive from the Arabic word for 'tribesman'.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=kab (97 words)

	info: Kabyle_language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kabyle is a Berber language (Kabyle: á¹®aqbayliá¹¯, Taqbaylit
		The classification of Kabyle is Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern.
		Kabyle is a Berber language native to Kabylie, it is present in seven Algerian districts.
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Kabyle_language.html (2486 words)

	Dr. Madjid Alaoua: Tamazight dialects and the insertion of the Tamazight language in the educational system (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tamazight language, wherever it exists and is spoken, has systematically been denied institutionalization, and all claims of its recognition have been fiercely fought, and the authors of these claims treated as separatists.
		In fact, no language exists in which the written version corresponds fully to the spoken one, for simple reasons: the written language has a tendency to be conservative, which is not the case for the spoken language, which changes all the time.
		When for political reasons a language is held back and is forbidden any elevation to a language of instruction and education, this surely becomes handicapped and ceases then to bring forth necessary values to the construction of a democratic and egalitarian state.
	www.waac.info /amazigh/language/alaoua_tamazight-dialects.html (6278 words)

	Berber languages information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Etymologically, it means "language of the free" or "of the noblemen." Traditionally, the term "tamazight" (in various forms: "thamazighth", "tamasheq", "tamajeq", "tamahaq") was used by many Berber groups to refer to the language they spoke, including the Middle Atlas, the Rif, Sened in Tunisia, and the Tuareg.
		The Berber languages have two cases of the noun, organized ergatively: one is unmarked, while the other serves for the subject of a transitive verb and the object of a preposition, among other contexts.
		Subclassification of the Berber languages is made difficult by their mutual closeness; Maarten Kossmann (1999) describes it as two dialect continua, Northern Berber and Tuareg, and a few peripheral languages, spoken in isolated pockets largely surrounded by Arabic, that fall outside these continua, namely Zenaga and the Libyan and Egyptian varieties.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Berber_languages (2114 words)

	The central position of women in the life of the Berbers of Northern-Africa exemplified by the Kabyles
		Thanks to the mothers the language of communication in the villages is still Kabyle language, in spite of the fact that at first French and since 1962 Arabic has been the language taught at school.
		In the eyes of the Kabyles, the woman is the foundation of the house and the family, but her role as woman and mother is only completely fulfilled when she becomes a grandmother.
		This is shown clearly in the symbolic language of the women, as geometric ornamentation on pottery, pieces of weaving and on the walls of the houses.
	www.second-congress-matriarchal-studies.com /grasshoff.html (5416 words)

	Kabyle - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kabyles, Berbers of coastal Algeria, Tunisia, and some oases in the Sahara, organized into a confederation of tribes.
		Kabyles, speakers of Kabyle dialect, greetings in Kabyle, Kabyle song (sound clip), number of speakers, where spoken
		- N African language: a Berber language spoken in northeastern Algeria.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Kabyle.html (72 words)

	Algeria Arabization - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Dialectical Arabic remained the language of everyday discourse among the vast majority of the population, but it was cut off from contemporary intellectual and technological developments and consequently failed to develop the flexibility and vocabulary needed for modern bureaucratic, financial, and intellectual affairs.
		The major effort, however, centered on language, and it was the quest for a "national" language that became the hallmark of arabization and that has aroused the most controversy and outright opposition.
		Another party, also representing the Kabyle, was the Rally for Culture and Democracy, which ran on a platform defending Kabyle culture and opposing the exclusive use of Arabic at the official level and all programs of arabization.
	www.photius.com /countries/algeria/society/algeria_society_arabization.html (1339 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Revamping the protest song (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And among Kabyle artists, he was the most bitter critic of the Algerian government, accusing it of persecuting the Kabyle minority, of incompetence in confronting the Islamists, of deep seated corruption and economic mismanagement.
		Yet the fact that the best known Kabyle singer was assassinated at the hands of the most fanatic and violent of Islamist factions, sparking widespread protest, does not imply that the Kabyle minority whole-heartedly shares his demands or has adopted common causes for protest.
		The Kabyle minority in Algeria is divided over another major issue on which the late singer had a declared stand -- the status of the French language and the position of the Francophone community.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/385/op2.htm (988 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus - Self-Determination - Regional Conflict Profile - Algeria
		Some eight million of Algeria's 30 million people are Kabyles, descendants of ancient tribes known today as Berbers and presumed to be the original inhabitants of the area bounded by the Libya/Egypt border, the Atlantic Ocean, the Sahara desert, and the Mediterranean Sea.
		Nationalists and Islamists have opposed demands that the Kabyle language, which is unwritten, be taught alongside Arabic in Algeria's schools.
		A referendum could be risky from the Kabyles' point of view: Many Algerians do not think the Kabyle language should have national status and were the idea defeated in a vote, this would give opponents more reason to bury the whole issue.
	www.fpif.org /selfdetermination/conflicts/algeria_body.html (828 words)

	Berber Branch
		In Algeria, Tamazight was recognized as a national language in 2002.
		It is estimated that there are between 14 and 25 million speakers of Berber languages, but exact numbers are difficult to ascertain, since most Maghreb countries do not record language data in their censuses, and many people who speak these languages are hard-to-reach nomads.
		In addition, these languages go by different names in their respective language communities -- a factor that confuses the issue of whether these are dialects of one language or different languages.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/july/berber.html (962 words)

	Kabyle - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kabyle, name given to the language and a group of people who are Berbers of coastal Algeria, Tunisia, and some oases in the Sahara.
		Many non-indigenous languages are spoken by certain immigrant groups,...
		Berber (people), name given to the group of languages and people of certain indigenous, non-Arabic peoples inhabiting large sections of North Africa....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Kabyle.html (117 words)

	MERCATOR :: Dossier 14: The Amazigh language within Morocco’s language policy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For ideological reasons, the language policy that was implemented –the imposition of Arabic as the only official language– created a situation of imbalance in the status of the other languages and, therefore, there was a situation of diglossia.
		Thus, language policy in Morocco may be considered as the cause of the status imbalance of the Amazigh language, and it then seems to create the imbalance in its social use functions.
		In such circumstances, when different languages are in contact, the oral ones are usually treated in a pejorative and discriminative way, they are politically and socially disdained, as those who defend the use of classical Arabic have held and still hold political power and take part in all language policy processes.
	www.ciemen.org /mercator/butlletins/54-10.htm (4647 words)

	Kabyle language Information
		Kabyle is a Berber language (Kabyle: ثاقبايليث Ṯaqbayliṯ, taqbaylit, pronounced /ˌθaq.βajˈliθ/) spoken by the Kabyle people.
		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.
		Famous Kabyle singers include Matoub Lounes, Idir and Ait Menguellet.
	www.bookrags.com /Kabyle_language (119 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:KYL
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		Kabyle is used in the home and market.
		The name 'Kabyle' is reported by some sources to derive from the Arabic word for 'tribesman', 'qabila'.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=KYL (114 words)

	Kabylia (Algeria)
		Following the arrestation of the writer Mouloud Mammeri, who had attempted to give a lecture on classical Berber poetry, the "Kabyle spring" started in Tizi-Ouzou in 1980 (with the birth of MCB), and thousands of demonstrators were arrested.
		In 1996, President Zeroual revised the Constitution, but the main claim of the Berbers, acknowledgement of Berber as the second national language of Algeria, was once again rejected.
		One flag was quite similar to other Berber flags, only the shade of blue was darker and the symbol was definitely drawn at right angles.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/dz-kab.html (532 words)

	Kabylia
		The Kabyle population are Muslims, and women enjoy great liberty and independence.
		An important traditional structure of Kabyle society are the aarush, village committees.
		Kabyles react with numerous demonstrations, like in Algiers in late May, in which 300,000 participated (organizers claimed up to 600,000).
	i-cias.com /e.o/kabylia.htm (271 words)

	allAfrica.com: Algeria: Bouteflika Agrees to Demands on Berber Language (Page 1 of 1)
		The speech was delivered on the occasion of a meeting between Bouteflika and Kabyle representatives on how to address Berber demands for better social and political conditions in Kabylia and other parts of the country.
		The decision was hailed by some Kabyle delegates as a historic moment in the long struggle for official recognition of their language.
		Kabyle hardliners, who reject anything less than full acceptance of all their demands, are already threatening a boycott of the May poll.
	allafrica.com /stories/200203130753.html (712 words)

	Berber
		"The three Berber languages researched for this project are: Kabyle (Taqbaylit), spoken in northern Algeria; Tamazight (Berber), of central Morocco; and Tuareg, the indigenous name of which varies according to the dialect (Prasse 1972): Tamahaq in southern Algeria, Tamashaq in Mali, Tamajeq in Niger and in Libya (Ghat, where it may also be called Tamaziq).
		Other major languages include Tashelhit (Shilha) and Tarifit (Rif) of Morocco." The languages of smaller groups are discussed in the Dialect Survey (4) of this section.
		However, the main languages and domains are identifiable from the many dialect studies and from the arrangement by region of entries in the bibliographical resources used here: A. Basset, LLB, 1952, and the chronicles entitled "Langue et litérature berbère" (LELB) by Basset and Chaker, in AAN.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/language.php?id=7 (872 words)

	Kabylia
		The Kabyle population are Muslims, and women enjoy great liberty and independence.
		An important traditional structure of Kabyle society are the aarush, village committees.
		Kabyles react with numerous demonstrations, like in Algiers in late May, in which 300,000 participated (organizers claimed up to 600,000).
	lexicorient.com /e.o/kabylia.htm (271 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this example, the verb is in Algerian dialect, the word car is in a kind of French, sbitar is Turkish, and the intonation is taken from the Berber Kabyle language.
		Then, there is Kabyle, a language used in the Berber Kabylie region east of Algiers.
		Increasingly, language is a reflection of age, not region, in a country where 70% of the population is under 30.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/C34DF785-92BC-4ED4-AE84-F13C83F6278D.htm (841 words)

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	www.mylanguageexchange.com /Learn/Berber.asp (868 words)

	Operation World - Detailed Information
		Berber, French and increasingly, English are widely used and 25% speak one of the Berber languages.
		Their forebears were once Christian, and many thousands have turned to Christ among the Kabyle — some through supernatural revelations of the Lord Jesus but mainly through personal evangelism.
		It is mostly the Kabyles that have responded.
	www.gmi.org /ow/country/alge/owtext.html (1574 words)

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