Kabyle

WALS coordinates: 36° 30′ N, 5° E

spoken in Algeria

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kabyle
Routledge:
  • Kabylia
Other:
  • Kabyl
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
41A Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast Nominal Categories
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42A Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem Nominal Categories
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62A Action Nominal Constructions Ergative-Possessive Nominal Syntax
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only Simple Clauses
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117A Predicative Possession Locational Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Mixed Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Different Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Impossible Simple Clauses
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121A Comparative Constructions Locational Simple Clauses
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138A Tea Others Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation NegVNeg Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144U Double negation in verb-initial languages NegVNegSO Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative No clause-final neg Word Order
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