Place names of Ṣanhāǧa origin in ḥassāniyya: etymology and localisation
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https://doi.org/10.25267/AAM.2023.v30.11Info
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- Ahmed-Salem (ES) Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Place names are one of the most significant onomastic aspects in the diachronic study of any language or dialect, however, despite the importance of this linguistic aspect, there is little work on Arabic dialects in general and in the case of the ḥassāniyya dialect in particular. In view of this fact, we have carried out a research work on Hassani toponymy of which we offer a part focused on the place names of Ṣanhāǧa or Ẓanāga origin which constitute a good part of the toponyms of Mauritania and are also the oldest ones because the Ṣanhāǧa tribes were the first inhabitants of the territory before the arrival of the Banū Ḥassān to the lands of Mauritania. These Berber tribes gave names to the places in this vast territory where they drilled numerous wells in order to obtain water for themselves and their livestock. For this reason, the most important toponyms of Ṣanhāǧa origin are the names of wells alongside which the ḥassāniyya borrowed some geographical terms, the latter of which were also used in toponymy.This article presents a corpus of toponyms and geographical terms of ṣanhāǧa origin from all over Mauritania.
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