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Title:SIZ_VS_NARR-020
Siwi
Contributor:Mahdi el Hweiti
Coverage:Egypt
Date:2011-10-02
Description:Siwa's past and how everything changed when Sadat arrived and the road to the coast was built Equipment: Edirol R-05/ Sennheiser MKE 40 Chevalier mic
The aim of the project is to document the variety of Berber spoken in Siwa Oasis, through a corpus collected and transcribed on the field. The aim is also to record the female speech in order to understand which are the differences between their speech and the men's one, who usually use Arabic and English, losing some of the characteristics of the Siwi language. The Siwi language (Code ISO 639-3:siz) is spoken by 25 thousand people, almost all of them are bilingual (Siwi-Arabic). Afro-Asiatic , Eastern Berber subgroup. Place: Siwa Oasis, depression of the Western desert , Libyan border. 300km far from Marsa Matruh, on the Mediterranean Coast. Part of Matruh Governatorate. Siwa is divided into 11 tribes, all of them ruled by a Sheikh, but there is also Government offices and a Police Station. The main zones are Aghurmi, AbuShruf, El Gara, Maraqi and the bedouin village Baʕdin. People from Siwa are divided into Easterns who come from Libya and Westerns who come from Algeria and Marocco.
He is the manager of the Office of Tourism of Siwa, he works there since this office was opened. He has frequent contacts with tourists. He studied Sociology at the University and he wrote a book about Siwa, which has not been published yet. He lives in the Gebel el Mawta area. Married.
Format:audio/x-wav
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1238180
SG0115
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1238180%23
Publisher:Valentina Schiattarella
EPHE (address: 4-14 rue Ferrus, Paris-75014, France) / LLACAN (address: 7, rue Guy Moquet – BP8, 94801 Villejuif, France, UMR 8135 du CNRS)
Subject:Narrative
Type:Audio

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Citation: Mahdi el Hweiti. 2011-10-02. Valentina Schiattarella.


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