Sened language
{{Short description|Extinct East Zenati Berber language of Tunisia}}
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{{Infobox language
| name = Sened
| nativename =
| states = Tunisia
| extinct = 1990
| familycolor = Afro-Asiatic
| fam2 = Berber
| fam3 = Northern
| fam4 = Zenati
| fam5 = East
| iso3 = sds
| linglist = sds
| glotto = sene1271
| glottorefname = Sened
| dia1 = Sened proper
| dia2 = Tmagourt
| 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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|top= {{script|Arab|الوختي دياب الاَلاَلَي ينغاَ خليفا الزناتي يليس غيداء تني زنق نزيمل نبويس - ومان الاَلاَلي - تسكركوست تنغيتتش او يني زنق نزيمليس - يني دياب زنق نزيمليس - يونس باش اّينغيت.}}
|El Oukhti Diab Elalalia ienr'a Khlifa Ezzenati ill-is R'ida tenni zenneg n ezzimmel n ebboïs. Oumman {El Alali}, teskerkoust tenr'it-etch. Aou ienni zenneg n ezziml-is. Ienni Diab zenneg n ezziml-is, ious-es bâch aïenr'it.
|When Diab El Hilali killed Khlifa Ezzenati, daughter-his Ghida rode top of horse of father-her. Said-they the-Hilalis, you-have-lied you-killed-him-not. Here-he-is rides top of horse-his. Rode Diab top of horse-his, goes to kill-her.
|When Diab El Hilali killed Khlifa Ezzenati, his daughter Ghida got on her father's horse. The Hilalis said "You lied; you didn't kill him!. There he is riding his horse." Diab mounted his horse and went forth to kill her.}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041104190015/http://waac.info/amazigh/language/boukous_tamazight_lin_tunisia.html Tamazight in Tunisia: by Ahmed Boukous] (Internet Archive)
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Category:Extinct languages of Africa
Category:Languages extinct in the 20th century
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