Tadaksahak (also ''Daoussahak, Dausahaq'' and other spellings, after the Tuareg name for its speakers, ''Dăwsăhak'')
is a
Songhay language
The Songhay, Songhai or Ayneha languages (, or ) are a group of closely related languages/dialects centred on the middle stretches of the Niger River in the West African countries of Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. In particular, ...
spoken by the
pastoralist
Pastoralist may refer to:
* Pastoralism, raising livestock on natural pastures
* Pastoral farming, settled farmers who grow crops to feed their livestock
* People who keep or raise sheep, sheep farming
Sheep farming or sheep husbandry is the r ...
Idaksahak
The Dawsahak people, ''Idaksahak'' (var.: ''Daoussahak'',Edmond Bernus (ed.). Art of being Tuareg: Sahara nomads in a modern world. Indiana University Press (2006) p.291Jeffrey Heath. A grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali), Volume 35 of Mouton gra ...
of the
Gao 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. Mali ...
. 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.
Desc ...
,
Tamasheq 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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