Hassānīya language

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

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.
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