| Enmediar, manddiaré, umdiyar, | | Played in: | Mauritania and
Western Sahara |Single lap game| |First seed in the same hole|
|Holes captured between games| | 2 to 12 holes per row | but an
even number Um dyar (enmediar, manddiaré, umdiyar, um ed-dyar)
is played by the Hassaniya-speaking population in western
Mauritania, for instance in Boutilimit (Trarza province) and in
Moudjéria (Tagant). Hassaniya is an Arab dialect heavily
influenced by Tamazigh, a Berber language, that originated in
the 15th century. At this time the Yemenite Beni Hassan tribe
migrated to north-western Africa and subdued the indigenous
Berber tribes over a period of 300 years. Hassaniya is today
spoken in the western Sahara, from Niger to Mauritania. They
constitute the majority of the population in Mauritania and
southern Morocco. The Hassaniya call this region Trab el Bidan,
i.e. '"Land of White People", in contrast to Bilal al Sudan, or
"Land of Black People". Um dyar is mostly played by young women,
sometimes also by men. However,