Afro-Asiatic family
Kabyle
c. 500 CE – today Living
Kabyle (c. 500 CE – today) is a living Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Berber → Kabyle.
See Kabyle on the interactive map- Speakers
- 5M (5,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- kab
- Glottocode
- kaby1243
Northern Berber language of Kabylia, northern Algeria, and the largest Berber language of Algeria.
Lineage
- Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
- Proto-Berberc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE
- Kabylec. 500 CE – today
Sister languages 4
Also descended from Proto-Berber.