Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on transcription and other conventions -- Introduction -- 1 Berber and Arabic in North Africa -- 2 Methodology: Listening to people's voices -- 3 The Siwa Oasis community -- 4 Change and resistance -- 5 Language use and the texture of multilingualism in present-day Siwa -- 6 Language hierarchies and folk linguistics in present-day Siwa -- 7 Sociology of language in present-day Siwa: Finding dynamicity in stability -- Conclusion: Language ecology of the Siwa Oasis -- Appendices -- References -- Index