Kabyle
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- proper noun
- I had assumed she was French; no, she says, Algerian, Kabyle, and starts telling me about Oran and the beautiful beaches and marvelous light.
Examples
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The Kabyle language is rich in history and reflects the heritage of the Berber people.
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Embracing a soccer player of Kabyle origins, the French press has declared him wholly and gloriously French.
Academic text (1999) -
We employed this technique when a Kabyle vessel arrived at the museum with a white bloom across parts of the surface.
Academic text (2003) -
This image gained increasing authority in midcentury French paintings depicting Kabyle agriculture in terms similar to those deployed in Chassiriau's Peace mural.
Academic text (2004) -
There's no loss of national identity involved for the nation when it includes different ethnicities; naturalization means becoming French, German, American, of Kabyle, Turk, or Korean origins.
Academic text (1999) -
As Patricia Lorcin has shown, the valorization of the pastoral Kabyle was achieved at the expense of the nomadic Arab.
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Many Kabyle people continue to preserve their unique traditions and culture in northern Algeria.
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She learned to speak Kabyle from her grandmother, who grew up in the Kabylie region.
Synonyms
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A language spoken by native peoples in North Africa, especially Morocco and Algeria
A Berber language spoken by people in North Africa
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kabyle comes from the Arabic word qaba'il meaning 'tribes'. A Kabyle is a person from the Berber communities in the mountains of northern Algeria, and the same name is used for their language.