Spoken L1 Language: Hassaniyya
- AES status:
- not endangered
- Source:
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David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
- Comment:
- Hassaniyya (mey-mey) = 3 (Wider communication). Statutory language of national identity (1991, Constitution, Article 6). Hassaniya comes from the name of the Beni Hassan tribes who invaded North Africa and settled in modern Mauritania in the 15th to 17th centuries. Used in trade and religion. Spoken throughout northwestern Africa.
Glottolog
[mey] at ISO 639-3
[mey] at OLAC
[mey] at IMTVault
Arabic (Bani-Hassan) at WALS
Hassaniyya at Grambank
Wikipedia
Wikidata