Hassānīya language

Ḥassānīya
Ḥassānīya
حسانية; Ḥassānīya
Native to	Southwestern Algeria, Libya, Northwestern Mali, Mauritania, southern Morocco, Northern Niger, Western Sahara
Ethnicity	Arab; Arab-Berber
Native speakers	5.00 million (2014–2017)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Ḥassānīya; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Nemadi; Imraguen;
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Official status
Recognised minority; language in	Morocco[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mey
Glottolog	hass1238
	Current distribution of the Hassaniya language.

Hassānīya (Arabic: حسانية Ḥassānīya) is a type of Maghrebi Arabic spoken by Mauritanian Arabs and the Sahrawi people.

References

"Morocco 2011 Constitution - Constitute". www.constituteproject.org. Retrieved 2021-07-18.

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