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Did Arabic replace the native spoken languages of West Africans?
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Generally speaking, NO. Most West Africans preserved their local languages. Every country south of the Sahara from Senegal to Niger and all countries along the Atlantic Ocean retained their unique spoken languages. To this day European languages brought by the colonizers (French, English, and Portuguese) are more commonly used and understood than Arabic ever was. Arabic in West Africa was primarily used as a language of record, meaning that scribes would write down information and historical accounts in Arabic and officials occasionally spoke in Arabic, but Arabic was not a commonly used language. A similar equivalence could be made concerning French in Britain prior to the 1700s.
Conversely, in North Africa, as far south as Mauritania and northern Chad, Arabic did displace a number of local languages especially in the lowland and coastal regions. However, local Amazigh (Berber) and Touareg Languages remained the dominant languages in areas far from the Arab-led coastal cities, such as the Atlas Mountains, or the Sahara Desert.
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