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SenedSened is a small town in central Tunisia northwest of Gabes, and is also the name of the extinct Berber language that was spoken there and at the nearby town of Tmagourt until the mid-twentieth century. In 1911, the whole town spoke Berber; by 1968, only the elderly did. | colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow" style="font-size:120%"|Sened | | valign="top"|Spoken in: | Tunisia | | valign="top"|Region: | Sened and Tmagourt | | valign="top"|Total speakers: | extinct | | valign="top"|Ranking: | extinct | valign="top"|Genetic
classification: | Afro-Asiatic
Berber
Northern
Zenati
Sened | | colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow"|Language codes | | a href="/encyclopedia/ISO-639" title="ISO 639">ISO 639 | ber | | a href="/encyclopedia/SIL" title="SIL">SIL | SDS | 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 Qalat 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 ebbos. Oumman El Alali, teskerkoust tenr'it-etch. Aou ienni zenneg n ezziml-is. Ienni Diab zenneg n ezziml-is, ious-es bch aenr'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
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