Sened is an
extinct East Zenati Berber language that was spoken in the nearby towns of
Sened and
Majoura (Berber ''Tmagurt'') in southern
Tunisia
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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
Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah (), also known as the Sirat Bani Hilal (سيرة بني هلال ''Sīra Banī Hilāl'') or the al-Hilali epic, is an Arabic epic
oral poem
that recounts the tale of the journey of the Bedouin tribe of the Banu Hilal fr ...
, detailing the incursion of the
Banu Hilal
The Banu Hilal ( ar, بنو هلال, translit=Banū Hilāl) was a confederation of Arabian tribes from the Hejaz and Najd regions of the Arabian Peninsula that emigrated to North Africa in the 11th century. Masters of the vast plateaux of t ...
, 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
The voiced uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , an inverted small uppercase letter , or in broad transcription if rhot ...
, kh a
voiceless uvular fricative
The voiceless uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , the Greek chi. The sound is represented by (ex with underdot) in Am ...
, ch represents English sh, ou represents /u/ or /w/, i represents /i/ or /j/, and e represents
schwa.
References
External links
Tamazight in Tunisia: by Ahmed Boukous(
Internet Archive
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Berber languages
Berbers in Tunisia
Extinct languages of Africa
Languages of Tunisia
Languages extinct in the 20th century
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