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The first French–Kabyle dictionary was compiled by a French ethnologist in the 18th century. It was written in Latin script with an orthography based on that of French. However, the Kabyle language really became a written language again in the beginning of the 19th century. Under French influence, Kabyle intellectuals began to use the Latin ...
The Kabyle people (/ k ə ˈ b aɪ l /, Kabyle: Izwawen or Leqbayel or Iqbayliyen, pronounced [iqβæjlijən], Arabic: القبائل, romanized: al-qabā'il) [12] [13] are a Berber ethnic group indigenous to Kabylia in the north of Algeria, spread across the Atlas Mountains, 160 kilometres (100 mi) east of Algiers.
For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. In the interest of pan-Berber legibility, the Berber Latin alphabet omits the partly phonemic contrast found in some Berber varieties (notably Kabyle and Tarifit) between stops and fricatives.
3SG: M -give: PAST =as = 3SG: IO =θ = 3SG: M: DO =ið = VEN y-əwš =as =θ =ið 3SG:M-give:PAST =3SG:IO =3SG:M:DO =VEN "He gave it to him (in this direction)." (Tarifit) The allowed positioning of different kinds of clitics varies by language. Nouns Nouns are distinguished by gender, number, and case in most Berber languages, with gender being feminine or masculine, number being singular or ...
Yemenite pronunciation of the letter chet. Merged with / χ / in most other dialects. See Yemenite Hebrew: Leonese: Riberan: harina [ħaˈɾi.na] 'flour' Judaeo-Spanish: Haketia: Ḥaketía [ħakeˈti.a] 'Haketia' Borrowed from Arabic and Hebrew Kabardian: кхъухь / ꝗvɦ / ٯّوح [q͡χʷəħ] ⓘ 'ship' Kabyle ...
Kabyle: cceǥ [ʃʃəʝ] 'to slip' Korean: 사향노루 / sahyangnoru [sɐʝɐŋnoɾu] 'Siberian musk deer' The sound is sometimes heard by people when /h/ is between voiced and combined with /i/, /t/ and /j/, See Korean phonology: Lithuanian [13] [14] ji [ʝɪ] 'she' Most often transcribed in IPA with j ; also described as an approximant . [15]
Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...
The area is populated by Kabyles, a Berber ethnic group. They speak the Kabyle language, the largest Berber language in Algeria. [58] It is spoken by 3 million people [59] and has significant Arabic, French, Latin, Greek, Phoenician and Punic substratum, [60] with Arabic loanwords representing 35% [60] to 46% [61] of the total Kabyle vocabulary.