Country Info

Mauritania Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 2,202,522 people (59% of Mauritania) that can read or write at least one language.

5 Writing Systems used in Mauritania

Arabic (Arabic)

ar-arab
language code
3,194,784
people

French (Latin)

fr-latn
language code
638,956
people

Fulah (Latin)

ff-latn
language code
214,238
people

Wolof (Latin)

wo-latn
language code
10,148
people

Fulah (Adlam)

ff-adlm
language code
0
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR