Nemadi dialect

Nemadi
Nemadi
Ikoku
Native to	Mali, Mauritania
Region	Timbuktu into Mauritania
Native speakers	(200 cited 1967)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Hassaniyya Nemadi; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

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".

^ Hassaniyya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7007-1197-0 p. 623: No data exists on this language. It is not unlikely that the language can be linked to Azer, Zenaga, Soninke and/or Hassaniya
^ Muriel Devey, La Mauritanie, KARTHALA Editions, 2005 ISBN 978-2-84586-583-9, p.39: "leur langue est un mélange d'hassaniya, de zenaga et d'azer"

[e18-1] Hassaniyya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7007-1197-0 p. 623: No data exists on this language. It is not unlikely that the language can be linked to Azer, Zenaga, Soninke and/or Hassaniya

[3] Muriel Devey, La Mauritanie, KARTHALA Editions, 2005 ISBN 978-2-84586-583-9, p.39: "leur langue est un mélange d'hassaniya, de zenaga et d'azer"

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