Group: | Siwi |
Native Name: | Isiwan سيويون |
Native Name Lang: | Siwan |
Image Caption: | Siwa Girl |
Population: | 26,100 |
Region1: | Egypt |
Pop1: | 25,000 |
Region2: | Libya |
Pop2: | 1,100 |
Langs: | Siwi Berber, Arabic |
Rels: | Islam |
Related: | Other Berbers |
The Siwi people or Siwan people, are a Berber ethnic group of about 25,000 native to Egypt's Siwa and Qara oases. They speak the Siwa language, a Berber language, spoken by about 20,000, along with Arabic. The Siwi are the easternmost concentration of Berbers.[1]