#zenaga

Colonial troops returning to their base camp in Algeria following the 1903 bombardment of Zenaga, Morocco

Zenaga (ⵜⵓⴹⴹⵓⵏⴳⵉⵢⴰ/Tuẓẓungiyya)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 200

Recognized minority language: Mauritania

Language of diaspora: Senegal

Script: Tifinagh, 33 letters/Latin, 44 letters

Grammatical cases: 0

Linguistic typology: fusional, SVO/VSO

Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Amazigh, Western

Number of dialects: 2

History

17th century - beginning of the decline of Zenaga

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the Neo-Tifinagh script: ⴰ ⴱ ⴳ ⴳⵯ ⴷ ⴹ ⴻ ⴼ ⴽ ⴽⵯ ⵀ ⵃ ⵄ ⵅ ⵇ ⵉ ⵊ ⵍ ⵎ ⵏ ⵓ ⵔ ⵕ ⵖ ⵙ ⵚ ⵛ ⵜ ⵟ ⵡ ⵢ ⵣ ⵥ.

These are the letters that make up the Latin alphabet: a ä ā b č d ð ḍ ð̣ e ə f g ǧ γ h ḥ i ī k l m n ñ o q r s š t θ θ̣ u ū w x y z ẓ ž ž̠ ʔ ʕ.

Long consonants are expressed through repeated letters. Consonants with a dot below them express emphasis.

Grammar

Nouns have two genders (masculine and feminine), two numbers (singular and plural), and no cases. These are marked using prefixes and/or suffixes.

Pronouns distinguish gender in the second and third person singular and plural. Numerals are placed before the noun, while possession is expressed with suffixes.

Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood (imperative, indicative, and prohibitive), gender, number, and person. The past tense also has a negative form.

Dialects

Synopsis: Zenyatta knows the doubts that plague you. Fortunately, he has something to take your mind off of your troubles. Inspired by itsthesinbin’s hypnosis scenarios.

Rating: Teen and up

Pairings: Python!Zenyatta/Reader (can be any gender)

You just want to stay like this forever. Your body feels heavy and warm, supported in his gold-and-silver serpentine coils, vaguely aware of your surroundings with his deep, sibilant voice in your ears. In fact, it’s the only thing you can hear.

You are ssssafe, little one, Zenyatta hisses softly. You can hear him speak in both your ears and your mind, since he is a telepathic python. No need to feel ssstresssed. Jussst relax. His upper body slowly drapes itself around your shoulders.

Earlier that day, you had been feeling frustrated and angry, but fortunately, your reptilian lover had something just for that. You had agreed for him to hypnotize you in order to take your mind off of whatever had been bothering you. One of the good things about him was that he always was there to comfort you whenever you needed it.

So far, his method of hypnotism has been working, and here you are, feeling absolutely nothing at all. You peer up at the serpent through heavy-lidded eyes with a dazed grin, and he chuckles softly in return, showing off his two pointy little fangs.

Ssso, how doessss it feel? I’m ssssure you like it. Nothing to bother you, it’ssss jussssst the two of ussss. You are sssssuch a sssssweet little human. You’re clearly enjoying it. You moan softly, feeling your face get red. Ssssshhh, he soothes. You have nothing to worry about. And if there issss, you can ressssst asssssured that it will be gone by now.

His voice is getting to you, doing things to you. Then a sudden thought comes to you: What if he’s hypnotizing you just so he can eat you? You’ve done your research on pythons and that they kill their victims by strangling them and then swallowing them whole. But you’re sure Zenyatta would never do that. He seems to have read your thoughts, because he reassures you that he would never eat you.

Don’t be sssscared. I’m not going to sssstrangle you and eat you or anything. I’m only here to take your mind off of your troublesssss. Jussssst sssssleep. He rests his head on your shoulder and gently flicks your cheek with his forked tongue in a serpentine kiss. Ssssleep, and be at peace.

French Foreign Legion troops advancing during the bombardment of Zenaga in Figuig, Morocco

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