Shenwa people

E719997

The Shenwa people are an indigenous Berber ethnic group of northern Algeria, traditionally inhabiting the Chenoua region near Tipaza and maintaining their own distinct language and cultural practices.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Shenwa people canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group ⓘ
autonym Ichenwiyen ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
country Algeria ⓘ
culturalContinuity pre-Arab Amazigh population of coastal Algeria ⓘ
culturalIdentity Amazigh ⓘ
culturalPractice agropastoralism ⓘ
collective village life ⓘ
olive cultivation ⓘ
oral poetry ⓘ
traditional music ⓘ
ethnicity Berber ⓘ
exonym Chenoua ⓘ
geographicalFeature Mount Chenoua ⓘ
linked to: Chenoua Massif
heritageStatus indigenous population of Algeria ⓘ
historicalLanguageShiftPressure Arabic ⓘ
language Shenwa language ⓘ
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
Berber languages ⓘ
locatedIn Tell Atlas ⓘ
locatedNear Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
Tipaza ⓘ
mainReligionBranch Islam ⓘ
mainReligiousSchool Maliki Sunni Islam ⓘ
linked to: Sunni Islam
partOf Amazigh world ⓘ
linked to: Berber world

Berber peoples ⓘ
linked to: Berbers
region northern Algeria ⓘ
relatedEthnicGroup Chaoui people ⓘ
Kabyle people ⓘ
Mzab people ⓘ
Riffian people ⓘ
linked to: Riffian Berbers

Tuareg people ⓘ
linked to: Tuareg
religion Sunni Islam ⓘ
sociolinguisticSituation bilingual in Shenwa and Arabic ⓘ
threatenedLanguage Shenwa language ⓘ
traditionalArchitecture stone houses ⓘ
traditionalEconomy small-scale herding ⓘ
subsistence agriculture ⓘ
traditionalTerritory Chenoua region ⓘ
Tipaza Province ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chenoui → spokenBy → Shenwa people ⓘ
Chenoui → ethnicGroup → Shenwa people ⓘ
Chenoua Massif → ethnicGroup → Shenwa people ⓘ
Chenoua region → ethnicGroup → Shenwa people ⓘ