Western Sahara
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Arabic, Hassaniyya
[mey] Widespread. Users: 424,000 in Western Sahara (Leclerc 2018d). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Alternate Names: Hasanya, Hassani, Maure, Mauri, Moor, Sahrawi, Sulaka. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Arabic, Moroccan Spoken
[ary] Users: 8,150 in Western Sahara (2018). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Arabic, Standard
[arb] Users: 287,000 in Western Sahara (2015 SIL), all users. Status: 1 (National). De facto national language. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Spanish
[spa] Users: 22,000 in Western Sahara (Instituto Cervantes 2019), L2 users. Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian.
Tachelhit
[shi] Users: 112,000 in Western Sahara (Leclerc 2018d). Status: 5* (Developing). Alternate Names: Tašlḥiyt. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Atlas.