Siwi language
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| Siwi Tasiwit |
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| Spoken in: | Egypt | |
| Region: | Siwa Oasis | |
| Total speakers: | about 15,000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Berber Eastern Siwi |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ber | |
| ISO 639-3: | siz | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Siwi (locally said tasiwit) is a Berber Afro-Asiatic language of Egypt, spoken by about 15,000 people in and around the oasis of Siwa near the Libyan border. Most speakers of Siwi also know Arabic, and the language contains a large number of Egyptian Arabic loanwords. Although Arabic is the official language of Egypt, the first language spoken by Siwa's children is the Siwi.
[edit] References
- Ethnologue Report for Siwi
- World Atlas of Language Structures entry
- Rene Basset. 1890. Le dialecte de Syouah. Paris: Ernest Laroux.
- Émile Laoust. 1931. Siwa I. Publication de l'Institute des Hautes-Études Marocaines 23. Paris: Ernest Laroux.
- Werner Vycichl. 1991. Jlân n Isîwan: Sketch of the Berber Language of the Oasis of Siwa (Egypt).
- Werner Vycichl. 2005. Berberstudien & A Sketch of Siwi Berber (Egypt). Berber Studies Volume 10. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
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