The Tajakant (also Tadjakant) is a Sahrawi tribe of Berber (Sanhaja) origins. They speak Hassaniya Arabic. The Tajakant mainly live in Mauritania, Morocco (and in the disputed territory of Western Sahara), Algeria and Mali. They are Muslims, adhering to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam. Tajakant the tribe descended from the tribe of Lamtouna, a fraction of the powerful tribe of Sanhadja in the Mauritanian Adrar. They became sedentary during the ninth century, at the fall of the Almoravid empire and founded between Chinguetti and Ouadane two cities since disappeared, Tinigui and Togba.