Hassaniya-speaking Moors

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Hassaniya-speaking Moors are an Arab-Berber ethno-linguistic group of the western Sahara and Sahel whose identity is closely tied to the Hassaniya Arabic dialect and a historically nomadic, desert-based culture.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hassaniya-speaking Moors canonical 1
Moors 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arab-Berber people ⓘ
ethno-linguistic group ⓘ
associatedWith Moorish culture ⓘ
Saharan nomadism ⓘ
climateAdaptation arid environment ⓘ
culturalPractice griot traditions ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
culturalRegion Maghreb ⓘ
linked to: North Africa

Sahel ⓘ
Western Sahara ⓘ
linked to: Spanish Sahara
dialectOf Maghrebi Arabic ⓘ
ethnicComposition Arab ⓘ
linked to: Arabs

Berber ⓘ
linked to: Berbers
ethnicity Moorish ⓘ
ethnoLinguisticIdentity Hassaniya Arabic speakers ⓘ
historicalLifestyle nomadic ⓘ
pastoralist ⓘ
historicalRole caravan guides ⓘ
traders ⓘ
warrior groups ⓘ
identityBasis Hassaniya Arabic dialect ⓘ
desert-based culture ⓘ
language Hassaniya Arabic ⓘ
languageFamily Arabic ⓘ
majorPopulationCountry Mauritania ⓘ
Western Sahara ⓘ
linked to: Spanish Sahara
mobilityPattern seasonal migration ⓘ
populationCountry Algeria ⓘ
Mali ⓘ
Morocco ⓘ
Niger ⓘ
Senegal ⓘ
primaryLanguage Hassaniya Arabic ⓘ
regionOfOrigin Adrar region ⓘ
linked to: Algerian Sahara

Trarza region ⓘ
religion Sunni Islam ⓘ
religiousSchool Maliki ⓘ
religiousTradition Sufism ⓘ
selfIdentification Bidhan ⓘ
socialOrganization clans ⓘ
tribes ⓘ
socialStratification tribal ⓘ
subsistence camel herding ⓘ
goat herding ⓘ
oasis agriculture ⓘ
traditionalEconomy caravan trade ⓘ
trans-Saharan trade ⓘ
traditionalHabitat Sahara Desert ⓘ
Sahelian zone ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northwest Africa → hasEthnoLinguisticGroup → Hassaniya-speaking Moors ⓘ
Portuguese people → historicalOrigin → Moors ⓘ
linked to: Hassaniya-speaking Moors