Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions

By El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed

Book Overview

In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups--Arab and afro-Mauritanian--have been flaring ever since the nation's independence. In Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions, El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed investigates language policy and identity in this North African country. Moulaye Ahmed traces the past and the present Mauritania's identities and language policies and reveals Mauritanians' language policy preferences and the relationship between their identities and their preferences.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 179361265X
• ISBN13: 9781793612656
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"