Sened language explained

Sened
States:Tunisia
Region:Sened and Tmagourt
Extinct:late 20th century
Familycolor:Afro-Asiatic
Fam2:Berber
Fam3:Northern
Fam4:Zenati
Fam5:East
Iso3:sds
Linglist:sds
Glotto:sene1271
Glottorefname:Sened
Map:Tunisia-Zuwara Berber Map.PNG
Mapcaption: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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