Africa · ISO 639-3 siz · Glottocode siwi1239
Siwi
In the source collection, Siwi is assigned to Africa and classified as a language of the Afro-Asiatic family; it is also documented as threatened and likely using Arabic.
- Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Likely script
- Arabic (Arab)
- Source status
- threatened
- Macroarea
- Africa
- Source country codes
- EG
- Reference point
- 29.200, 25.520
Open research question
How is the use of Siwi changing through migration, urbanisation, and contact with regionally dominant languages?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.