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Sened language
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. SampleFrom 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 When Oukhti Diab Diab El Elalalia Hilali ienr'a killed Khlifa Khlifa Ezzenati Ezzenati, ill-is daughter-his R'ida Ghida tenni rode zenneg top n of ezzimmel horse n of ebboïs. father-her. Oumman Said-they El Alali, the-Hilalis, teskerkoust you-have-lied tenr'it-etch. you-killed-him-not. Aou Here-he-is ienni rides zenneg top n of ezziml-is. horse-his. Ienni Rode Diab Diab zenneg top n of ezziml-is, horse-his, ious-es goes bâch to aïenr'it. 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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