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Pages in category "Culture of Mauritania" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Kiffa beads;
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
They have traditionally been characterized as the descendants of former sub-Saharan African slaves. [5] [6] They form the single largest defined ethnolinguistic group in Mauritania where they account for 40% of the population (~1.5 million). [7] In parts of Arab-Berber Maghreb, they are sometimes referred to as a "socially distinct class of ...
The Beidane, who are of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry, represent 30% of Mauritania's population. [1] [2] The language of the Beidane is Hassaniya Arabic. Al-Bidān (which literally translates to "Land of the whites") is an endonym used within Mauritania and Western Sahara by the Bidān people to refer to themselves. The name used by outsiders ...
The Soninke (Sarakolleh) people are a West African Mande-speaking ethnic group found in Mali, southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea (especially Fouta Djallon). [4] They speak the Soninke language , also called the Serakhulle or Azer language, which is one of the Mande languages . [ 5 ]
By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara. Most of its population of some 4.3 million lives in the temperate south of the country, with roughly a third concentrated in the capital and largest city, Nouakchott , on the Atlantic coast.
The Tichitt tradition, [1] [2] or Tichitt culture, [3] [4] was created by proto-Mande peoples, [5] namely the ancestors of the Soninke people. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 4000 BCE, the start of sophisticated social structure (e.g., trade of cattle as valued assets) developed among herders amid the Pastoral Period of the Sahara. [ 8 ]
Mauritania, [a] formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, [b] is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast , Mali to the east and southeast , and Senegal to the southwest .