Les langues comme enjeux identitaires

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ID4266271
AuthorsCatherine Taine-Cheikh (0000-0001-6316-9864, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume55
Issue1
Pages57-65
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitique africaine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0244-7827 • E-ISSN: 2264-5047
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/polaf.1994.5796
OpenAlexW2222006276
LanguageFR
Citations received7

Languages as identity. If litterary Arab is, in Mauritania, the language of Islam and consequently the religious language of all, it however never meant that in the past all Mauritanians mastered it. During colonial times, a young francophone elite emerged and provided the state with part of its managerial staff. On the whole, however, the Maure majority, whose native language is an Arab dialect, has never stopped to ask for the predominance of Arab on French. As a consequence, the more of less conflictual relations between the Maures and the Negro-Africans those last thirty years have been somehow connected to the relations between French and Arab

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