Tasawaq (Tuareg name: ''Tesăwăq''),
sometimes also called ''Ingelshi'', is a
Northern Songhay language
Northern Songhay is the smaller of the two branches of the Songhay languages. It is a group of heavily Berber-influenced dialects spoken in scattered oases of the Sahara.
Languages
The nomadic varieties include Tihishit in central Niger aro ...
spoken by the ''Issawaghan'' or ''Ingalkoyyu'', a community surrounding the town of
In-Gall in
Niger.
[Michael J. Rueck; Niels Christiansen]
Northern Songhay languages in Mali and Niger, a sociolinguistic survey
Summer Institute of Linguistics (1999).[Catherine Taine-Cheikh. es langues parlées au sud Sahara et au nord Sahel http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00456346/ De l'Atlantique à l'Ennedi (Catalogue de l'exposition « Sahara-Sahel »), Centre Culturel Français d'Abidjan (Ed.) (1989) 155–173] A closely related variety called Emghedeshie was spoken in
Agadez but is now extinct.
It shares some similarities with Berber languages, like the Tamasheq. For example in booth Languages, the grammatical gender of a Nomen is female if it begins and ends with the letter t.
References
Songhay languages
Languages of Niger
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