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.
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.