Siwi assignment 2: Language Profile

[Landon Mariano]

Names: Siwa, Sioua, Oasis Berber, Zenati

 

Location: Siwa Oasis, Egyptà in Kara, on the north-west border of Egypt and Libya

 

Number of Native Speakers:   ~10,000à There is a lot of varied data, some estimates state as many as 32,000 native speakers

 

Size of Ethnic Population: ~10,000-30,000à See description above

 

Variants and Dialects: Ammiyyaà bridge language

 

Language Codes: ISO 639-3 siz