Mauritania Mūrītāniyā (موريتانيا) CALENDAR: Gregorian (all); MAIN RECORD: languages used: Arabic (since 1968), French (1958-1980); scripts: Arabic - original in parentheses; TRANSLITERATION: Arabic (based on the Romanization Table of the American Library Association/Library of Congress, 1997); OTHER: English (style equivalents) Sources Polity Style: 1958-2023 Heads of State: 1958-2023 Last updated on: 04 Oct 2021 09:52:33; URL: www.archontology.org/nations/mauritania/index.php