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  1. 14th December 2005 20:32 #1
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    I do not speak amazigh and I would like to know if kabyle, chaoui, mzabi and tergui are one language or different languages.
    Can a chaoui understand a kabyle and vice vera. How different are they, is it like Spanish and Portuguese or more like Japanese and Arabic.
    What about the writing?

    Thanks for any info
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  2. 15th December 2005 08:29 #2
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    I would like to know too. I live in the capital of Chaoui but understand only few words. Most of people cannot understand Kabyle but I "hear" and "read" that they can understand each other. How is that? I don't know.

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  3. 15th December 2005 08:52 #3
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    Being a kabyle myself I can tell that I'm able to understand a bit of chaoui (around 50%?), nearly nothing in Tergui, arab words in mzabi, but I understand everything said in the moroccan amazigh (chelha)...
    All these languages share many words but are now different since they diverged a long time ago...

    PS: even between kabyles, there is a slight diff between bejaia, tizi, setif, bouira... but we're still able to understand each other
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    thanks phyl for cleaning things up
    I'm also curious to find out how much close Chaoui and Kabyle if you get rid of arabic/french words from them?

    ps: Need to marry a Kbaylia to learn abit

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  5. 15th December 2005 13:18 #5
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    Originally posted by phylay
    Being a kabyle myself I can tell that I'm able to understand a bit of chaoui (around 50%?), nearly nothing in Tergui, arab words in mzabi, but I understand everything said in the moroccan amazigh (chelha)...
    Anna Chelha.


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  6. 15th December 2005 15:14 #6
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    Originally posted by lazzhar
    thanks phyl for cleaning things up
    I'm also curious to find out how much close Chaoui and Kabyle if you get rid of arabic/french words from them?

    ps: Need to marry a Kbaylia to learn abit
    Lol Lazzhar, u'll probably get more advantages in marrying a kbayliya than just learning a bit kabyle

    As for your question, the vocabulary is not very different, only grammar and "conjugaison" changed a lot. For sure the two languages are closer each to other than to arabic (if we forget the arabic words)
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  7. 15th December 2005 15:15 #7
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    Originally posted by HOUDA-K


    Anna Chelha.
    hmmm. interesting! R your two parents chleh?
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