Sena is a Bantu language spoken by 1.6 million people in Mozambique and Malawi. In Mozambique it is spoken in the provinces of Tete, Sofala, Zambezia and Manica in the Zambezi valley in the centre of the country.
There are number of dialects of Sena, including Nyungwe, Chikunda and Sena in Zimbabwe, and Mag'anja in Malawi, which some consider a separate language. The Barwe dialect (Chibarwe) has official recognition in Zimbabwe.
Download an alphabet chart for Sena (Excel)
An apostrophe after m or n (m’, n’) indicates that they are pronounced as separate syllables, e.g. n’khondo [ŋ̍kʰɔndɔ], nkhondo [ŋkʰɔndɔ], m’bale [m̩balɛ], mbale [mbalɛ]
Source: http://lidemo.net/2010/docs/seh_v000334.pdf
Details of the Sena alphabet and pronunciation provided by Michael Peter Füstumum
Pyacitika siku ibodzi, ndzizi wa njala, baba wa panyumba, akakhala na nsambo wa kukwata uci ncitomba mbafikira pakhukhu. Ndzizi onsene akava njala, akapanga anace kuti ndirikwenda kasuta dotha pakhukhu. Na tenepo, angafika akakwata ntete mbanfeka pansi padabisee uci, mbakakwewa nawo uci ule, na mulomo, ninga asadyadi dotha. Anace akapyona pyonsene pikacita babao.
Once upon a time, in the time of famine, a father who had the bad habit of burying in a landfill, in secret, a small jar full of honey clay. Whenever he was hungry, he told his children he was going to suck trash gray. So when there came, he prodded the hose he had brought with him, in the place where the honey had hidden, and with it, pulled it as if it really was eating gray. The children saw all this and when the woman discovered, separated from her husband.
Source: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Língua_sena
Information about the Sena language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sena_language
http://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/seh
http://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/swk
https://books.google.co.uk/
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