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imraguen people wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 history 2 fishing 3 language 4 religion 5 references 6 external links toggle the table of contents imraguen people 11 languages العربية català deutsch esperanto español suomi français lietuvių nederlands polski português edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia redirected from imraguen language ethnic group of mauritania and western sahara ethnic group imraguen total population 23 800 2016 regions with significant populations western sahara 23 000 2016 mauritania 800 2016 languages hassaniya arabic religion sunni islam the imraguen or imeraguen berber imrāgen singular amrig are a berber ethnic group or tribe of mauritania and western sahara they were estimated at around 5 000 individuals in the 1970s 1 most members of the group live in or nearby mauritania s banc d arguin national park 2 history edit the name imraguen berber orthography imrāgen is a berber word meaning fishermen or people who fish while walking on the sea 3 or those who harvest life 4 the imraguen are believed to descend from the bafour people 5 according to the documentation of the human population of the territory the imraguen people lived on the banc d arguin national park for thousands of years and its population had probably been larger 4 militarily powerless the imraguen were traditionally reduced to the degrading lower caste status of znaga forcibly ruled and taxed horma by more powerful berber hassane and zawia tribes such as the oulad delim and ouled bou sbaa in 2008 the imraguen people occupied 9 small villages along the coastline 6 some imraguen populate the abandoned la güera fort which is also the south point of the western sahara zone claimed by morocco 7 fishing edit a few generations ago the imraguen people used to whistle the dolphins to bring them near the shore and catch all the mullets that always followed the dolphins 6 the imraguen people are the only ones authorized to fish in the banc d arguin area as long as they use their traditional fishing techniques the number of fishes caught for each species is limited and strongly reinforced by the mauritanian authorities 6 in 2004 the imraguen people agreed to preserve the shark and ray species in the banc d arguin national park which became a unesco world heritage site in 1989 and traded their nets for money 3 the imraguen people blame the new oil and gas explorations around the banc d arguin area along with a new road adjacent to the area as the main factors for the reduction of fish reproduction in the area 6 at the arkeiss village it is possible for tourists to practice sports fishing in the banc d arguin and gather up to 5 kilos of fish 6 language edit imeraguen imraguen native to mauritania region banc d arguin national park ethnicity imraguen native speakers 530 2006 8 language family unclassified hassaniya arabic variety with an azer soninke base per ethnologue or berber base per fortier corinne 2004 language codes iso 639 3 ime deprecated in 2015 as spurious glottolog imer1236 the imraguen speak hassaniya arabic with some berber vocabulary related to fishing 9 their dialect is referred to as the imraguen language religion edit the imraguen are muslims of the sunni maliki rite citation needed references edit virginia thompson and richard adloff the western saharans 1980 isbn 0 7099 0369 3 page 50 shoup john a 2011 ethnic groups of africa and the middle east an encyclopedia ethnic groups of the world santa barbara calif abc clio isbn 978 1 59884 362 0 1 2 fishermen who walk on water burn their nets panda org 5 may 2004 1 2 in spanish el pueblo imraguen protector de la cultura y naturaleza en mauritana webislam com 17 june 2006 pazzanita anthony g 2008 historical dictionary of mauritania 3rd revised ed scarecrow press p 52 isbn 978 0 8108 5596 0 1 2 3 4 5 in french jean pierre turquoi mauritanie au pays des imraguen lemonde fr 11 april 2008 in spanish jesús cabaleiro larrán la güera ciudad fantasma del sahara periodistas es com 1 august 2016 language representative counts retrieved 2023 09 01 hammarström 2015 ethnologue 16 17 18th editions a comprehensive review online appendices external links edit banc d arguin national park protected areas programme v t e ethnic groups in mauritania bafour bedouins berbers dom fula haratin imraguen jakhanke kunta mandinka reguibat sahrawi serer soninke toucouleur wolof v t e ethnic groups in western sahara sahrawis bedouins berbers haratin hassane horma iraguen reguibat v t e mandé peoples benin boko people burkina faso bobo people kpee people samo people seenku people ivory coast beng people gban people dan people goo people guro people jeri people mwan people tura people wan people yaure people ghana bissa people dyula people ligbi people wangara people guinea jakhanke people kakabe people lele people loma people mogofin people susu people yalunka people zialo people liberia dan people gbandi people mano people vai people mali bambara people banka people bozo people duun people dyula people jowulu people malinke people soninke people marka people wangara people nigeria busa people kyenga people shangawa people senegal gambia mandinka people sierra leone kono people kpelle people kuranko people loko people mandingo people mende people ethnic groups whose languages are in the manding group of mandé are in bold authority control databases national united states france bnf data israel other idref yale lux retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title imraguen_people oldid 1369753062 language categories ethnic groups divided by international borders ethnic groups in western sahara ethnic groups in mauritania soninke language hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata articles with spanish language sources es articles with french language sources fr all articles with unsourced statements articles with unsourced statements from january 2025 this page was last edited on 16 august 2026 at 23 12 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc a non profit 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