oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1238197
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OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1238197 |
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| Title: | SIZ_VS_NARR-002 | |
| Siwi | ||
| Contributor: | Mahdi el Hweiti | |
| Coverage: | Egypt | |
| Date: | 2011-09-22 | |
| Description: | He speaks about Siwa, its temple, history, handicrafts. 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:MPI1238197 | |
| SG0115 | ||
| Identifier (URI): | https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1238197%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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| Archive: | Endangered Languages Archive | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1238197 | |
| DateStamp: | 2018-10-08 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
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| Citation: | Mahdi el Hweiti. 2011-09-22. Valentina Schiattarella. | |