Tadaksahak (also ''Daoussahak, Dausahaq'' and other spellings, after the Tuareg name for its speakers, ''Dăwsăhak'')
is a
Songhay language spoken by the
pastoralist Idaksahak of the
Gao Region
The Gao Region ( Bambara: ߜߊߏ ߘߌߣߋߖߊ tr. Gao Dineja) is a region in northeastern Mali. The capital city is Gao.
Geography
The region is bordered to the north by Kidal Region, to the west by Tombouctou Region and Taoudénit Region, ...
of
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mal ...
. Its phonology, verb morphology and vocabulary has been strongly influenced by the neighbouring
Tuareg languages
The Tuareg () languages constitute a group of closely related Berber languages and dialects. They are spoken by the Tuareg Berbers in large parts of Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso, with a few speakers, the ''Kinnin'', in Chad.
Des ...
,
Tamasheq
Tamashek or Tamasheq is a variety of Tuareg, a Berber macro-language widely spoken by nomadic tribes across North Africa in Algeria, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Tamasheq is one of the three main varieties of Tuareg, the others being Ta ...
and
Tamajaq.
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
See also
*
Tadaksahak word list (Wiktionary)
References
*Regula Christiansen,
A grammar of Tadaksahak a northern Songhay language of Mali', Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (2010)
*Niels and Regula Christiansen,
Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or, Berber or Songhay, this is the question', SIL Electronic Working Papers (2002)
*Regula Christiansen and Stephen H. Levinsohn,
Relative clauses in Tadasahak', SIL Electronic Working Papers (2003)
*Michael J. Rueck and Niels Christiansen,
', Proceedings of the 1998 Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference (1998)
Languages of Mali
Songhay languages
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