Social:Sened language

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Short description: Extinct East Zenati Berber language of Tunisia
Sened
Native toTunisia
RegionSened and Tmagourt
Extinctlate 20th century
Afro-Asiatic
  • Berber
    • Northern
      • Zenati
        • East Zenati
          • Sened
Language codes
ISO 639-3sds
Glottologsene1271[1]
Tunisia-Zuwara Berber Map.PNG
Berber-speaking areas belonging to the Tunisia-Zuwara dialectal group

Sened is an extinct East Zenati Berber language that was spoken in the nearby towns of Sened and Majoura (Berber Tmagurt) in southern Tunisia until the mid-20th century. In 1911, the whole town of Sened spoke Berber; by 1968, only the elderly did.

Sample

From a section translated from the epic Taghribat Bani Hilal, detailing the incursion of the Banu Hilal, in Provotelle's Etude sur la Tamazir't ou Zenatia de Qalaât Es-sned (Tunisie) (1911). The Arabic and French transcriptions of the text are reproduced unchanged; in the latter, r' represents a voiced uvular fricative, kh a voiceless uvular fricative, ch represents English sh, ou represents /u/ or /w/, i represents /i/ or /j/, and e represents schwa.

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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Sened". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sene1271. 

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