Sokna language

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Sokna
Tasuknit
Native to	Libya
Region	Fezzan
Extinct	(date missing)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Eastern Awjila–Sokna Sokna
Dialects	Sokna Fezzan (Foqaha, Tmessa)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`swn`
Glottolog	`sawk1238`
ELP	Sawknah

Sokna (also Sawknah, Sukna; native name: Tasuknit)^[2] is a presumably extinct Eastern Berber language which was spoken in the town of Sokna (Isuknan) and the village of Fuqaha in northeastern Fezzan in Libya. According to Václav Blažek (1999), Sokna was also spoken in the oasis of Tmassa.^[3]

The most extensive and recent materials on it are Sarnelli (1924)^[4] for Sokna and Paradisi (1963)^[5] 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

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^ Sokna at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
^ "Linguasfera: Tamazic (Berber)". Llengües, Literatures i Cultures del Món, [LLCM] (in Catalan). Retrieved 2015-10-27.
^ Blažek, Václav (1999). Numerals: Comparative-etymological Analyses of Numeral Systems and Their Implications : Saharan, Nubian, Egyptian, Berber, Kartvelian, Uralic, Altaic and Indo-European Languages. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, Filozofická fakulta. Vol. 322. ISBN 9788021020702.
^ Sarnelli, Tommaso (1924–1925). "Il dialetto berbero di Sokna: Materiali lessicali, testi manoscritti in caratteri arabi, con trascrizione e traduzione". Supplemento All'Africa Italiana (in Italian).
^ Paradisi, Umberto (1963). "Il linguaggio berbero di El-Fogaha (Fezzan)". Istituto Orientale di Napoli. XIII: 93–126.

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Official language	Arabic Standard Libyan dialect
Minority languages	Berber Awjilah Ghadamès Nafusi Sawknah Tamahaq Tamasheq Zuwara Domari Tebu Tedaga
Foreign languages	English Italian
Sign languages	Libyan Sign Language

Berber languages

Reconstructed

Proto-Berber

Eastern

Awjila
Fezzan
- Foqaha
- Sokna
- Tmessa
Ghadamès
Jaghbub
Kufra
Nafusi
- Jadu
- Nalut
- Wazzin
- Yefren
Siwa

Northern

Zenati	Eastern Middle Atlas (transitional to Atlas) Seghrouchen Warayn Northern Saharan Mozabite Wad Righ Wargla South Oran and Figuig Tidikelt Gurara Tuwat Riffian Central Riffian Snouss Western Riffian Eastern Moroccan Iznasen Shawiya Tunisian-Zuwara (transitional to Eastern) Jerba Matmata Sened Douiret Zuwara Western Algerian Gouraya Shelif Shenwa
Non-Zenati	Atlas languages Central Atlas Gharb Ghomara Senhaja de Srair Shilha Judeo-Berber Kabyle Central-Eastern Central-Western Eastern Western
Standardised	Moroccan Amazigh Algerian Berber

Tuareg

Northern Tuareg	Tamahaq Tahaggart Ajjer Ghat
Southern Tuareg	Tamashek Tadhaq Tanaslamt Tawellemmet Tayirt Ingal Gofat Tanassfarwat Azerori Tayart

Western

Others

Guanche?
Old Libyan
- East Numidian
- Fezzan-Tripolitanian
- Mauretanian
- West Numidian

Orthography

Institutions

Governmental	AAAL (Algeria) HCA (Algeria) IRCAM (Morocco) DNAFLA (Mali) CRB (France)
NGOs	Berber Academy World Amazigh Congress Amazigh Cultural Association in America

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