Sanhaja de Srair language
Not to be confused with Zenaga language.
| Sanhaja de Srair | |
|---|---|
| Tasenhajit, Tamazight | |
| Native to | Morocco |
| Region | Rif |
Native speakers | 50,000 (2013)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
sjs |
| Glottolog |
senh1238[3] |
Map of Little Sanhaja
The language of the Senhaja de Srair ('Senhaja of Srair') is a Northern Berber language spoken in the southern part of the Moroccan Rif, in the area known as "Little Sanhaja".
It belongs –despite location– to the Atlas languages family[2] and is influenced by the neighboring Riffian language.
References
- ↑ Sanhaja de Srair at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Lameen Souag, 2004: "Senhaja de Srair is not Zenati, but rather Atlas, belonging (despite location) with Middle Atlas Tamazight."
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Senhaja De Srair". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Bibliography
- Peter Behnstedt, "La frontera entre el bereber y el árabe en el Rif", Estudios de dialectología norteafricana y andalusí vol. 6, 2002.
- Esteban Ibañez, Diccionario español-senhayi (dialecto beraber de Senhaya de Srair), 1959.
- A. Renisio, Études sur les dialectes berbères des Beni Iznassen, du Rif et des Senhaja de Sraïr. Grammaire, textes et lexique. PIHEM, vol. 12. Paris 1932.
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