Hassaniyya-French Dictionary (Mauritanian Arabic)

Presentation

This tenth volume follows the gāf/qāf volume, previously published by Presses de l’Inalco and available on OpenEdition. These two volumes complement the first eight volumes of the French-ḥassāniyya Dictionary: Arabic Dialect of Mauritania, published by Geuthner between 1988 and 1998.

The author began working on this ḥassāniyya dictionary in 1974, using as her starting point the Lexique Français-Maure, an unpublished manuscript by Albert Leriche (who died in 1957). All available written sources were critically incorporated and supplemented by oral surveys.

The comparative and etymological perspective—one of the defining features of this dictionary—has benefited from the author’s separate research, conducted since 1997, on Zenaga of Mauritania, an endangered Berber language with which ḥassāniyya has been in close contact for centuries.

The author

Catherine Taine-Cheik is a research director emerita at Lacito (CNRS). Her research focuses primarily on ḥassāniyya (the Arabic dialect of Mauritania) and Zenaga (the Berber language of Mauritania), as well as on contact dialectology, ethnolinguistics, and oral literature.

324 pages
16,5 x 21 cm
Publication : 08/10/2026
ISBN : 978285831488