public_comment: ""Most ethnic Siwi, a group consisting of some 5,000 people, appear to have shifted to Arabic as a first language."",
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date_of_info: "2008",
public_comment: ""Estimate, in 2008. Total population is 25 000 with Tamazight speaking majority. Internet sources (www.mondeberbere.com/PARImazigh/Parimazigh5/siwa.htm) estimate number of speakers at 20 000 speakers."",
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public_comment: ""The Egyptian census of 2006, viewable at http://www.msrintranet.capmas.gov.eg/pls/census/cnsest_a_sex_ama?LANG=1&lname=0&YY=2006&cod=33&gv=, gives a population of 15,886 for Siwa, if we include the small Siwi-speaking town of Gara and exclude the Bedouin Arabic-speaking small villages of Maraqi and Bahayeldin to the east. A minority of non-Siwi Egyptians is also found in the town, reducing the figure slightly, but no estimate of their population is available."",