Editing Nemadi dialect (section)

{{short description|Dialect of Hassaniya Arabic}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Nemadi
|nativename=Ikoku
|states=[[Mali]], [[Mauritania]]
|region=Timbuktu into Mauritania
|speakers=200
|date=1967
|ref=<ref name=e18>{{e18|mey|Hassaniyya}}</ref>
|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
|fam2=[[Semitic languages|Semitic]]
|fam3=[[West Semitic languages|West Semitic]]
|fam4=[[Central Semitic languages|Central Semitic]]
|fam5=[[Varieties of Arabic|Arabic]]
|fam6=[[Maghrebi Arabic|Maghrebi]]
|fam7=[[Hilalian dialects|Hilalian]]
|fam8=[[Hassaniya Arabic]]
|isoexception=dialect
|glotto=none
}}

'''Nemadi''' is a language spoken by a small hunting tribe of eastern [[Mauritania]] known as the Nemadi people. It is, according to some sources, a dialect of [[Hassaniya Arabic|Hassaniyya]], according to others, a mixture of [[Zenaga language|Zenaga]], [[Azer (language)|Azer]] and Hassaniyya.<ref>Christopher Moseley, ''Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages'',  Routledge, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-7007-1197-0}} p. 623: No data exists on this language. It is not unlikely that the language can be linked to Azer, Zenaga, Soninke and/or Hassaniya</ref><ref>Muriel Devey, ''La Mauritanie'', KARTHALA Editions, 2005 {{ISBN|978-2-84586-583-9}}, p.39: "leur langue est un mélange d'hassaniya, de zenaga et d'azer"</ref>  The name "Nemadi" itself appears to come from Soninke, where it means "master of dogs".