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Modern Standard Arabic is the official language of the government of Mauritania. Hassaniyya Arabic (70%-80% of the population) [3] is the colloquial spoken variety of Arabic. Its name is derived from the tribe of the Bänū Ḥassān. [3] The language serves as a lingua franca in the country.
Arabic is the official and national language of Mauritania. The local spoken variety, known as Hassaniya, contains many Berber words and significantly differs from the Modern Standard Arabic that is used for official communication. Pulaar, Soninke, and Wolof also serve as national languages. [1]
The Niger–Congo languages constitute the largest language family spoken in West Africa and perhaps the world in terms of the number of languages. [ citation needed ] One of its salient features is an elaborate noun class system with grammatical concord .
63 languages. Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ ... Pages in category "Languages of Mauritania" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Mauritania: 7 1 8 0.11 3,858,400 551,200 111,150
The Soninke language (Soninke: Sooninkanxanne, [2] سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ), also known as Serakhulle or Azer or Maraka, [3] is a Mande language spoken by the Soninke people of West Africa. The language has an estimated 2.3 million speakers, primarily located in Mali and Mauritania , and also (in order of numerical importance of the ...
Sahrawis' native language is the Hassānīya, a variety of Arabic originally spoken by the Beni Hassan Arabian tribes of the Western Sahara. It has almost completely replaced the Berber languages originally spoken in this region. Though clearly a western dialect, Hassānīya is relatively distant from other North African variants of Arabic.
Zenaga (autonym: Tuẓẓungiyya or āwӓy ən uẓ̄nӓgӓn) is a Berber language on the verge of extinction currently spoken in Mauritania and northern Senegal by thousands of people. [1] Zenaga Berber is spoken as a mother tongue from the town of Mederdra in southwestern Mauritania to the Atlantic coast and in northern Senegal. The language ...