Speakers Distribution
According to Ethnologue.com, in 2006 there were around 3,123,190 hassaniya speakers, distributed in:
- Mauritania: 2,770,000 (2006)
- Algeria: 150,000 (1985)
- Western Sahara: unknown
- Mali: 106,000 (1991)
- Morocco: 40,000 (1995)
- Libya: 40,000 (1985)
- Niger: 10,000 (1998)
- Senegal: 7,190 (2006)
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