Siwi Language

colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow" style="font-size:120%"|Siwi (Tasiwit)
valign="top"|Spoken in: Egypt
valign="top"|Region: Siwa
valign="top"|Total speakers: About 5,000
valign="top"|Ranking: Not in top 100
valign="top"|Genetic
classification:
Afro-Asiatic
 Berber
  Eastern
   Siwi
colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow"|Language codes
a href="/encyclopedia/ISO-639" title="ISO 639">ISO 639-2 ber
a href="/encyclopedia/SIL" title="SIL">SIL SIZ
Siwi is a Berber Afro-Asiatic language of Egypt, spoken by about 5,000 people in and around the oasis of Siwa near the Libyan border. Siwi's relation to other Berber languages is not very close. Most speakers of Siwi also know Arabic, and the language contains a large number of Egyptian Arabic loanwords. See also: language, Africa, Siwa Oasis

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