Siwi language

E570843

Afroasiatic language Amazigh language Berber language natural language

The Siwi language is a Berber (Amazigh) language spoken by the Siwi people in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis, characterized by significant Arabic influence and its status as one of the easternmost Berber languages.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Siwi language canonical	3
Siwan language	1
Siwi	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Afroasiatic language ⓘ Amazigh language ⓘ Berber language ⓘ natural language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Awjila language ⓘ Nafusi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Sokna language NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Egypt ⓘ
endangeredStatus	vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Siwi people NERFINISHED ⓘ
glottocode	siwi1239 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Siwa Berber NERFINISHED ⓘ Siwan language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tasewwit NERFINISHED ⓘ Tisiwit NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasContactWith	Egyptian Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ Libyan Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDominantNeighborLanguage	Arabic language ⓘ
hasLanguageShiftPressureFrom	Arabic language ⓘ
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom	Arabic language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	gender distinction in nouns ⓘ plural formation with suffixes ⓘ verb aspect marking ⓘ
hasMorphologicalInfluenceFrom	Arabic language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive gemination ⓘ emphatic consonants ⓘ vowel length distinction ⓘ
hasResearchField	Afroasiatic linguistics NERFINISHED ⓘ Berber linguistics NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSignificantInfluenceFrom	Arabic language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunitySize	several thousand speakers ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature	use of clitic pronouns ⓘ verb–subject–object basic word order ⓘ
hasTypologicalFeature	nonconcatenative morphology remnants ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	siz ⓘ
isOneOf	easternmost Berber languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ Berber languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Libyan Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Desert of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ Siwa Oasis NERFINISHED ⓘ
subclassOf	Zenati Berber language ⓘ
usedFor	daily communication in Siwa Oasis ⓘ local cultural practices ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ
writingSystem	Arabic script ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Siwa Oasis → languageSpoken → Siwi language ⓘ

Tasiwit → alternativeNameOf → Siwi language ⓘ

Tasiwit → hasAlternativeName → Siwi language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Siwi

Siwa Berber → hasAlternativeName → Siwi language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Siwan language