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The language of the Senhaja de Srair ('Senhaja of Srair'), also Senhaya or Zenaga, is a Northern Berber language spoken in the southern part of the Moroccan Rif (between Taounate and Targuist). It is most closely related to the Atlas languages but heavily influenced by the neighboring Riffian language; Blench (2006) classifies it as a dialect of Mzab–Wargla within the Zenati languages.

It is apparently not immediately mutually intelligible with Riff, and is spoken only by a small minority of the Rif region , in the area known as the "Little Senhaja" (Ketama).

References

1. Pace Ethnologue, it is not extinct; Harry Stroomer reports that "Senhaja de Srair is alive" (p.c. quoted in Behnstedt 2002).

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.

External links

• Ethnologue listing for Senhaja de Srair

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