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Senhaja De Srair LanguageThe language of the Senhaja de Srair is a Northern Berber language spoken in the southern part of the Moroccan Rif. It is most closely related to the Atlas languages, but heavily influenced by the neighboring Tarifit language (also Berber.) Contrary to the Ethnologue, it is not extinct; Harry Stroomer reports that "Senhaja de Srair is alive" (p. c. quoted in Behnstedt 2002.) It is apparently not immediately mutually intelligible with Tarifit, and is spoken only by a small minority among the Senhaja, in the area known as the "Little Senhaja". Bibliography - Peter Behnstedt, "La frontera entre el bereber y el rabe en el Rif", Estudios de dialectologa norteafricana y andalus vol. 6, 2002.
- Esteban Ibaez, Diccionario espaol-senhayi (dialecto beraber de Senhaya de Srair), 1959.
- A. Renisio, tudes sur les dialectes berbres des Beni Iznassen, du Rif et des Senhaja de Srar. Grammaire, textes et lexique. PIHEM, vol. 12. Paris 1932.
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