Sened is an

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East Zenati Berber language that was spoken in the nearby towns of Sened and

Majoura Sened ( ar, السند ') is a commune and small town in central Tunisia in Gafsa Governorate, and is also the name of the extinct Berber language The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight,, ber, label=Tuareg Tifin ...

(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

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References

External links

Tamazight in Tunisia: by Ahmed Boukous
( Internet Archive) Berber languages Berbers in Tunisia Extinct languages of Africa Languages of Tunisia Languages extinct in the 20th century {{Berber-lang-stub