Tadaksahak language
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| Dawsahak | ||||
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| Tadáksahak | ||||
| Spoken in | Mali, Algeria | |||
| Ethnicity | Dawsahak | |||
| Native speakers | 100,000 (2007) | |||
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| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | dsq | |||
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| Dawsahak | |
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| people | Idaksahak |
| language | Tadáksahak |
The Dawsahak language, Tadaksahak (also Daoussahak and other spellings) is a Songhay language spoken by the pastoralist Idaksahak of the Ménaka area of Mali. Its phonology, verb morphology, and vocabulary has been strongly influenced by the neighboring Tuareg languages, Tamasheq and Tamajaq.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i, iː | u, uː |
| Mid | e, eː | o, oː |
| Open | a, aː | |
[edit] Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar or palatal |
Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Pharyngealized | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | nˤ | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive and Affricate |
Voiceless | t | tˤ | t͡ʃ | k | q | |||
| Voiced | b | d | dˤ | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | f | s | sˤ | ʃ | x | ħ | h | |
| Voiced | z | zˤ | ʒ | ɣ | ʕ | ||||
| Flap | ɾ | ɾˤ | |||||||
| Lateral | l | lˤ | |||||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||||
[edit] References
- Niels and Regula Christiansen (2002). Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or, Berber or Songhay, this is the question
- Regula Christiansen and Stephen H. Levinsohn (2003). Relative clauses in Tadasahak
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