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Beni Snous dialect

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Native to
  
Algeria

Glottolog
  
None

Linguist list
  
086

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati Riff Beni Snous

Beni Snous is a dialect of Riffian Berber spoken near Tlemcen in Algeria.

Only a few elderly people in the region still speak it. Most of the Beni Snous have shifted to the Arabic language.

  • 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

    • References

    Beni Snous dialect Wikipedia
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