Jlan n Isiwan

E695199

Jlan n Isiwan is the native Berber name for the Siwa Berber language spoken in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis.

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Jlan n Isiwan canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
language
autonymLanguage Berber
closelyRelatedTo Awjila Berber
Sokna Berber
linked to: El-Fogaha Berber
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
glottologCode siwi1239
hasAlternativeName Siwa Berber
Siwi
Siwi Berber
hasCaseMarking reduced compared to other Berber languages
hasDialects no major dialectal variation
hasGenderDistinction feminine
masculine
hasMorphologyType fusional
nonconcatenative
hasNumberDistinction plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
emphatic consonants
hasWordOrder SVO
VSO
ISO639-3 siwi
languageFamily Afroasiatic
Berber
lexifierInfluence Arabic
Egyptian Arabic
minorityLanguageIn Egypt
nativeNameOf Siwa Berber
Siwi language
region Western Desert of Egypt
linked to: Western Desert
spokenByMinorityGroup Siwa Oasis
spokenIn Egypt
Siwa Oasis
usedBy Amazigh community of Siwa
linked to: Siwa Berber

Siwi Berber people
linked to: Siwi people
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Siwa Berber nativeName Jlan n Isiwan