Request for the enabling of Hassaniya in TranslateWiki.

See Portal:Mey (disabled for now, I cannot enable it myself, its activation status can be checked at the bottom of Special:ActiveLanguages/mey). Also for now the existing Wikipedia Incubator portal is just an empty page, and there's no other known wiki natively supporting the language or containing related contents.

Note that in Senegal, there's an orthography based on the Latin script (like also the Wolof language, which influences Hassanya there), officialized by a national decree for a recognized minority. That variant (officially named Hassaniya in the Senegalese decree published in French, and spoken notably in the Goxumbaac or Gokhou-Mbathie quarter, to the North-West of the the national capital Saint-Louis) is still not well studied even though it is reported to be in high development in Senegal where it is also understood by local wolof speakers: it is missing in Glottolog/Linguist List, and not encoded separately in ISO 639/BCP47 with the two scripts (may be it could get a separate language code if efforts are made for it in Senegal if the contacts with wolof and French speakers, and the sedentarisation of former nomadic Maure peoples where they originated, has significantly modified it).

Elsewhere, most Hassanya people are in Southern Morocco, Western Sahara, Southwestern Algeria and Northern Mali, using the Arabic script for some poestry, but the language is mostly transmitted orally. Hassanya is considered part of Maghrebi Arabic, but it's a bit creolized with influences of Atlantic languages (mostly Wolof but as well other Mauresque languages), Berber languages, plus some Spanish (reports are saying that it reached the Canary Island, but I don't know its current vitality there, whereas it has reached Continental Europe in Spain and France, and other Maghebri countries with modern migrations, but their local populations don't seem to use it actively).

Verdy p (talk)01:29, 28 January 2023