Shenwa

E34075

Shenwa is a Zenati Berber language spoken by a small community in the Chenoua (Shenwa) region of northern Algeria.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Shenwa canonical 3
Shenwa community 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
Zenati language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Zenati Berber
surface form: Chenoua Berber

other Zenati Berber varieties
country Algeria
culturalAssociation Chenoua ethnic identity
local oral literature
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
geographicFeature Atlas Mountains
surface form: Atlas Mountains foothills
hasAlternativeName Chenoua
Chenoui
Tacenwit
hasDialectContinuumWith neighboring Zenati Berber varieties
hasISOCode NOCODE_Shenwa
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
verb aspect marking
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive gemination
emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature verb–subject–object basic word order
languageBranch Zenati
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic

Berber languages
surface form: Berber

Northern Berber
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
French
numberOfSpeakers small community
region Chenoua Massif
Mediterranean coast of Algeria
spokenBy Berbers
surface form: Chenoua people

Shenwa self-linksurface differs
surface form: Shenwa community
spokenIn Algeria
Chenoua region
Tipaza Province
Kabylie
surface form: northern Algeria
status minority language in Algeria
subfamilyOf Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic

Berber languages
surface form: Berber

Northern Berber
Zenati
threatenedBy language shift to Arabic
language shift to French
usedFor oral communication
songs
traditional storytelling
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shenwa spokenBy Shenwa self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Shenwa community
Chenoui alsoKnownAs Shenwa
Tacenwit exonym Shenwa