Sened language

Sened language

language
name=Sened
nativename=
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Tunisia
region=Sened and Tmagourt
extinct=20th century
fam2=Berber
fam3=Northern
fam4=Zenati
iso2=ber|iso3=sds

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

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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.

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."

Word-for-word: 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.

Less literally: 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.

External links

* [http://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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