Editing Chinguetti (section)

===Founding===
The city was founded in AD 777. The name ''Chinguetti'' means "spring of horses" in the [[Nemadi dialect|Azayr language]], an extinct dialect of [[Soninke language|Soninke]] that was heavily mixed with [[Berber language|Berber]]. The area, at that time far more green than today, was home to agricultural peoples ancestral to several sub-Saharan ethnic groups, including the [[Soninke people|Soninke]].<ref name = Webb>{{cite book |last1=Webb |first1=James |title=Desert frontier : ecological and economic change along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850 |date=1995 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |location=Madison |isbn=0299143309 |page=29 |url=https://archive.org/details/desertfrontierec0000webb/page/28/mode/2up |access-date=25 December 2023}}</ref> {{rp|15,71}}