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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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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ber | |
| ISO 639-3: | siz | |
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Siwi (Amazigh: tasiwit) is a Berber Afro-Asiatic language of Egypt, spoken by about 20,000 people in and around the oasis of Siwa near the Libyan border. The language contains a number of Egyptian Arabic loanwords, but remains a distinctive Berber language variety almost identical to the Berber language variety of Eastern Libya. Although Arabic is the official language of Egypt, the first language spoken by Siwa's children is the Siwi.
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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