OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1238236

Metadata
Title:		SIZ_VS_NARR-120
		Siwi
Contributor:		Omran
Coverage:		Egypt
Date:		2014-01-29
Description:		Folktale Equipment: Edirol R-O5 recorder / Audiotechnica AT897 Mono condenser Mic I was there with the speaker, another person with her child
		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.
		Married. He manages a coffeeshop in Fatnas Island and he works, together with other people, in a project whose aim is to collect and preserve old Siwan stories. He lives in Maraqi area.
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1238236
		SG0115
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1238236%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:		Folktale
Type:		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1238236
DateStamp:		2018-10-08
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Citation:		Omran. 2014-01-29. Valentina Schiattarella.