اللهجة القبائلية

Kabyle
	()
موطنها	Algeria; immigrant communities in France, Belgium, Canada and elsewhere
العرق	Kabyle people
الناطقون الأصليون	5 million in Algeria (2012)e17; Half a million elsewhere
عائلة اللغات	الأفرو-آسيوية Berber Northern Berber Kabyle; ; ;
نظام الكتابة	Berber Latin alphabet
أكواد اللغات
ISO 639-2	kab
ISO 639-3	kab
	Kabyle-speaking areas
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اللهجة القبائلية (قبايلي؛ الأسماء المحلية: تاقبايليت، نطقب:IPA-tam؛ تمازيغت تاقبايليت، أوتازواوت) هي لهجة من لهجات اللغة الأمازيغية، يتحدثها سكان منطقة القبائل بشمال الجزائر إلى جانب الجاليات القبائلية بدول أروبا الغربية. يقدر عدد المتحدثين بها بأكثر منسبعة ملايين في منطقة القبائل ، وبأكثر منعشرة ملايين في بقية أنحاء العالم. هي اللهجة الأمازيغية الأكثر انتشارا بعد لهجة تاشلحيت (بجنوب المغرب).

في الجزائر، هي اللهجة الأمازيغية الأولى من حيث عدد المتحدثين، تتبعها اللهجة الشاوية.

Phonology

The phonemes below reflect the pronunciation of Kabyle.

Vowels

Kabyle has three phonemic vowels:

Tamazight vowel phonemes
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Open		a

〈e〉 is used to write the epenthetic schwa vowel [ə] which occurs frequently in Kabyle. Historically it is thought to be the result of a pan-Berber reduction or merger of three other vowels.

The phonetic realization of the vowels, especially /a/, is influenced by the character of the surrounding consonants; emphatic consonants invite a more open realization of the vowel, e.g. aẓru = [azˤru] 'stone' vs. amud = [æmud] 'seed'. Often /a, i, u/ are realized as [æ, ɪ, ʊ]

Consonants

**Kabyle consonant phonemes**
		Bilabial		dental	Dental		Alveolar		alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Pharyngeal	Glottal
		plain	lab.	dental	plain	emph.	plain	emph.	plain	emph.	plain	lab.	plain	lab.	plain	lab.	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Stop and Affricate	voiceless				t [t]	ṭ [tˤ]	tt [ts]		č [tʃ]				k [k]	k [kʷ]	q [q]	q [qʷ]
Stop and Affricate	voiced	b [b]	b [bʷ]		d [d]		zz [dz]		ǧ [dʒ]				g [ɡ]	g [ɡʷ]
Fricative	voiceless			f [f]	t [θ]		s [s]	ṣ [sˤ]	c [ʃ]	c [ʃˤ]	k [ç]	k [çʷ]			x [χ]	x [χʷ]	ḥ [ħ]	h [h]
Fricative	voiced	b [β]			d [ð]	ḍ [ðˤ]	z [z]	ẓ [zˤ]	j [ʒ]	j [ʒˤ]	g [ʝ]	g [ʝʷ]			ɣ [ʁ]	ɣ [ʁʷ]	ɛ [ʕ]
Nasal		m [m]			n [n]
Trill					r [r]	ṛ [rˤ]
Approximant	central										y [j]			w [w]
Approximant	lateral				l [l]	l [ɫ]

Fricatives vs. Stops

Kabyle is mostly composed of fricatives, phonemes which are originally stops in other Berber languages, but in writing there is no difference between fricatives and stops. Below is a list of fricatives vs. stops and when they are pronounced (note that gemination turns fricatives into stops).

Consonant	B	D	G	K	T
Fricative	/β/ Sound sample ()	/ð/ Sound sample ()	/ʝ/ Sound sample ()	/ç/ Sound sample ()	/θ/ Sound sample ()
Stop	/b/	/d/	/ɡ/	/k/	/t/
Is a stop after	m	l,n	b,j,r,z,ɛ	f,b,s,l,r,n,ḥ,c,ɛ	l,n
Is a stop in the words (and their derivatives)			ngeb, ngeḥ, ngeẓwer, angaẓ, ngedwi, nages,ngedwal

النحو

الأسماء

الأفعال

Verb	Preterite	ad + aorist	Intensive aorist
If (to outdo)	ifeɣ	ad ifeɣ	ttifeɣ
Muqel (to observe)	muqleɣ	ad muqleɣ	ttmuquleɣ
Krez (to plough)	kerzeɣ	ad kerzeɣ	kerrzeɣ

"Strong verbs" or "irregular verbs":

Verb	Preterite	ad + aorist	Intensive aorist
Aru (to write)	uriɣ	ad aruɣ	ttaruɣ

Kabyle subject affixes
Person		sg.	pl.
1		...-ɣ	n-...
2	m	t-...-ḍ	t-...-m
2	f	t-...-ḍ	t-...-mt
3	m	i/y-...	...-n
3	f	t-...	...-nt

Verbs are conjugated for person by adding affixes. These suffixes are static and identical for all tenses (only the theme changes). The epenthetic vowel e may be inserted between the affix and the verb. Verbs are always marked for subject and may also inflect for person of direct and indirect object.

Examples

« Yuɣ-it. » – "He bought it." (He.bought-it)

« Yenna-yas. » – "He said to him." (He.said-to.him)

« Yefka-yas-t. » – "He gave it to him." (He.gave-to.him-it)

Kabyle is a satellite-framed based language, Kabyle verbs use two particles to show the path of motion:

d orients toward the speaker, and could be translated as "here".
n orients toward the interlocutor or toward a certain place, and could be translated as "there".

Examples:

« iruḥ-d » (he came), « iruḥ-n » (he went).
« awi-d aman» (bring the water), « awi-n aman » (carry away the water).

الضمائر

Pronouns may either occur as standalone words or bound to nouns or verbs.

Person	Singular	Plural
1st (m)	nkk / nekki / nkkini	nkkni / nkkwni
1st (f)	nkk / nkkini	nkknti
2nd (m)	kčč / kčči / kččini	kunwi / knwi
2nd (f)	kmm / kmmi / kmmini	kunnmti / knnmti
3rd (m)	ntta / nttan / nttani	nutni / nitni
3rd (f)	nttat	nutnti / nitnti

Example : « Ula d nekk. » – "Me too."

Possessive pronouns are bound to the modified noun.

Person	Singular	Plural
1st (m)	(i)w / inu / nnu	nnɣ
1st (f)	(i)w / inu / nnu	nntɣ
2nd (m)	(i)k / ink / nnk	nwn
2nd (f)	(i)m / inm / nnm	nknt
3rd (m)	(i)s / ins / nns	nsn
3rd (f)	(i)s / ins	nsnt

Example : « Axxam-nnɣ. » – "Our house." (House-our)

There are three demonstratives, near-deictic ('this, these'), far-deictic ('that, those') and absence. They may either be suffixed to nouns, or appear in isolation. Examples: « Axxam-a / Axxam-agi» – "This house.", (House-this), «Wagi yelha» – "This is nice." (This is-nice).

المراجع

^ «اللغة والأدب الأمازيغي» منطق بالفرنسية لسالم شاكر، أستاذ لغة أمازيغية بمعهد اللغات والحضارات الشرقية بباريس ومدير مركز البحوث الأمازيغية.
^ Abdel-Massih (1971b:11)

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