Sokna

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Sokna is an extinct Eastern Berber language formerly spoken around the oasis town of Sokna in central Libya.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sokna canonical 4
Sokna (town) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
extinct language
category Berber languages
Extinct languages of Africa
Languages of Libya
closelyRelatedTo Awjila
El-Fogaha Berber
Siwi
continent Africa
country Libya
documentedIn Berber linguistic surveys of Libya
works of Karl G. Prasse
endangeredStatusBeforeExtinction severely endangered
ethnicGroup Berber people of Sokna
extinction 20th century
glottocode sokn1241
hasAlternativeName Sokna Berber
linked to: El-Fogaha Berber

Sokni
Sukna
hasDialects Fuqaha dialect
Sokna dialect
hasLinguisticFeature Afroasiatic root-and-pattern morphology
gendered nouns
verb–subject–object word order (tendency)
ISO639-3 swn
languageBranch Berber languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageShiftTo Libyan Arabic
linked to: Maghrebi Arabic
lexicalSimilarityWith Awjila
Siwi
locatedInTimeZone UTC+2
macroArea North Africa
partOf Eastern Berber subgroup
linked to: Eastern Berber
region central Libya
linked to: Central Libya
replacedBy Arabic
spokenBy Berber communities of Sokna oasis
spokenIn Sokna (town)
linked to: Sokna

Sokna oasis
linked to: Murzuq Oasis
status extinct
subclassOf Eastern Berber language
writingSystem Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Tasiwit closelyRelatedTo Sokna
Sokna spokenIn Sokna (town)
linked to: Sokna