Author: El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-05-27
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1793612668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
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Download or read book Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania written by El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.