In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups—Arab and afro-Mauritania

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The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers’ identification with these languages,

Over the last 50 years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the