Sokna language
| Sokna | |
|---|---|
| Sawknah | |
| Native to | Libya |
| Region | Fezzan |
| Extinct | (date missing)[1] |
| Dialects |
Sokna
Fezzan (Foqaha)
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
swn |
| Glottolog |
sawk1238[2] |
Sokna or Sawknah is a Berber language spoken in the town of Sokna (Isuknan) and the village of Fuqaha in northeastern Fezzan in Libya. The most extensive and recent materials on it are Sarnelli (1924)[3] for Sokna and Paradisi (1963)[4] for El-Fogaha. Both articles report that the language was spoken only by a handful of old people at the time, so it is generally presumed to be extinct.
Aikhenvald & Militarev (1984) and Blench (2006) consider Sokna and Fezzan to be separate languages. Blench lists Tmessa and Al-Foqaha as dialects of Fezzan.
References
- ↑ Sokna at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sawknah". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Sarnelli, Tommaso. 1924. "Il dialetto berbero di Sokna: Materiali lessicali, testi manoscritti in caratteri arabi, con trascrizione e traduzione", in Supplemento all'Africa Italiana.
- ↑ Paradisi, Umberto. 1963. "Il linguaggio berbero di El-Fogaha (Fezzan)". Istituto Orientale di Napoli XIII. 93-126.
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