The smallest Egyptian village inhabited by Amazigh speakers
Administratively, a small Egyptian village belongs to Matrouh Governorate and is located in the heart of the Western Desert. It is considered the smallest oasis in Egypt and located on the edges of the Qattara Depression. It is the village of “Jara Um Al-Saghir.” The residents of the oasis are fixed, and in the following lines we present to you everything you want to know about the village of “Umm Al-Saghir’s neighbor,” the isolated oasis from the world.
The village of “Jara Um al-Saghir” is located 75 km to the north-east of Siwa. It is connected to an asphalted sub-road of approximately 100 km length in an area called Bir al-Nisf on the Matrouh-Siwa road. The number of houses in the village does not exceed 100, and its population does not exceed 750 people. After their number did not exceed 306 for hundreds of years until 1986 AD, and according to the legend circulated by the people of the village, one of the Moroccan pilgrims called for the people of the village to be cut off from birth, so whenever a child was born to them another of the elderly died.
One of the signs of your arrival in the village is the interruption of transmission from your mobile phone, and then you feel complete isolation from the world, and in the streets of the village no one speaks Arabic, but everyone speaks Amazigh fluently, in order to preserve it from extinction, as it is the language of parents and grandparents, and the most important characteristic of the population is the color of the brown skin .
The people of the village of “Umm al-Saghir’s neighbor” have been dealing with barter for several years, and although they know the money, they can’t find it, so all transactions were done through barter, and the people of the village bartered their crops of dates and olives for food products from Siwa or Marsa Matrouh.
Among the features of the oasis are thick, high salinity springs that have been known since the Roman era, and a hot water spring called “Kifara” whose temperature reaches 70 degrees Celsius. Environmental and handicrafts.
And the village of “Umm Al-Saghir’s neighbor” is in itself an archaeological site, built with “Korshef”, which is made of silt mixed with salt, and one of the village’s special dishes is “Al-Aqrouz”, which is the palm tree, and is traditionally served to the most important guests.
Source: Egyptian Today News Portal
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