Beni Snous dialect
| Beni Snous | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Algeria |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Linguist list |
086 |
| Glottolog | None |
Beni Snous is a dialect of Riffian Berber spoken near Tlemcen in Algeria.[1][2]
Only a few elderly people in the region still speak it. Most of the Beni Snous have shifted to the Arabic language.[3]
Links
- Extinction de tamazight à Béni snous - the interviewer (speaking in Arabic) elicits Berber vocabulary from some of the last elderly speakers of Beni Snous Berber, in Kef
Bibliography
- Destaing, Edmond (1907). Etude sur le dialecte berbère des Beni-Snous. Paris: Ernest Leroux.
- Destaing, Edmond (1914). Dictionnaire français-berbère: Dialecte des Beni-Snous. Paris: Ernest Leroux.
- Souag, Lameen; Kherbache, Fatma (9 June 2014). "Syntactically conditioned code-switching? The syntax of numerals in Beni-Snous Berber". International Journal of Bilingualism. SAGE. 18 (4). doi:10.1177/1367006914536002. ISSN 1756-6878.
See also
References
- ↑ Souag, Lameen (2009-03-19). "Beni-Snous: Two unrelated phonetic forms for every noun?". Jabal al-Lughat. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
- ↑ Ilahiane, Hsain (2006). Historical dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-8108-5452-9.
- ↑ Souag, Lameen; Kherbache, Fatma (9 June 2014). "Syntactically conditioned code-switching? The syntax of numerals in Beni-Snous Berber". International Journal of Bilingualism. SAGE. 18 (4). doi:10.1177/1367006914536002. ISSN 1756-6878.
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