A Bedouin-descended Arabic variety spoken across Mauritania, Western Sahara, and adjacent parts of the Sahel. Carries deep Berber substrate and a strong oral poetic tradition.
- Approximate centre
- 18.07°, -15.97°
Dialect comparison
Hassaniya Arabic vs Libyan Arabic
Compare two dialects of Arabic side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.
Sulaimitian Arabic
The Maghrebi Arabic of Libya, transitional between western Maghrebi and Egyptian. Tripolitanian and Cyrenaican varieties differ noticeably in vocabulary and phonology.
- Spoken in
- Approximate centre
- 32.87°, 13.19°
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