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.

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Sened
Native to	Tunisia
Region	Sened and Tmagourt
Extinct	late 20th century
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati East Zenati Sened
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sds
Glottolog	sene1271
Berber-speaking areas belonging to the Tunisia-Zuwara dialectal group

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.

References

External links

• Tamazight in Tunisia: by Ahmed Boukous (Internet Archive)

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На других языках

[fr] Tamazight du Sened

[it] Lingua sendi

[ru] Сенед (язык)