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Languages of Western Sahara

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Western Sahara. 440,000. National or official languages: Hassaniya Arabic [mey], Moroccan Arabic [ary]. Territory and legal status contested by Morocco and Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro). The number of individual languages listed for Western Sahara is 2. Of those, both are living languages.
Arabic, Hassaniyya

[mey]   Alternate names: Hasanya, Hassani, Maure, Mauri, Moor, Sahrawi, Sulaka.  Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic 
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Arabic, Moroccan Spoken

[ary]   Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic 
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