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The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy".
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.
Hassaniya Arabic was the language spoken in the pre-modern region around Chinguetti. The language has completely replaced the Berber languages that were originally spoken in this region. Although clearly a western dialect, Hassānīya is relatively distant from other Maghrebi variants of Arabic.
Mauritania, [a] formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, [b] is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast , Mali to the east and southeast , and Senegal to the southwest .
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 ...
A person from Mauritania, or of Mauritanian descent. For information about the Mauritanian people, see Demographics of Mauritania. Note that there is no language called "Mauritanian". For Mauritania's official language, see Arabic. For the history of Mauritania, see History of Mauritania; The Mauritanian, 2021 film directed by Kevin Macdonald
Nemadi is a language spoken by a small hunting tribe of eastern Mauritania known as the Nemadi people. It is, according to some sources, a dialect of Hassaniyya, according to others, a mixture of Zenaga, Azer and Hassaniyya. [2] [3] The name "Nemadi" itself appears to come from Soninke, where it means "master of dogs".
Zenaga is a language descended from the Sanhaja confederation who ruled over much of North Africa during the early Middle Ages. Zenaga was once spoken throughout Mauritania and beyond but fell into decline when its speakers were defeated by the invading Maqil Arabs in the Char Bouba war of the 17th century.