Tadaksahak

Dawsahak
Dawsahak
People	Idaksahak
Language	Tadáksahak

Dawsahak
Dawsahak
Tadáksahak
Native to	Mali, Niger
Ethnicity	Dawsahak
Native speakers	100,000 (2007)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Songhay Northern Dawsahak; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dsq
Glottolog	tada1238
	Location of Songhay languages; Northwest Songhay: Korandje Koyra Chiini Tadaksahak Tasawaq Tagdal Eastern Songhay: Tondi Songway Kiini Humburi Senni Koyraboro Senni Zarma language Dendi
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The Dawsahak language, Tadaksahak (also Daoussahak, Dausahaq, 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^{[disambiguation needed]}.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i, iː	u, uː
Mid	e, eː	o, oː
Open	a, aː

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar		Palatoalveolar/Palatal	Velar	Uvular/Pharyngeal	Glottal
	Labial	plain	phary.	Palatoalveolar/Palatal	Velar	Uvular/Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	nˤ		ŋ
Stop/Affricate	b	t d	tˤ dˤ	tʃ dʒ	k ɡ	q
Fricative	f	s z	sˤ zˤ	ʃ ʒ	x ɣ	ħ ʕ	h
Approximant		l	lˤ	j	w
Flap		ɾ	ɾˤ

References

^ A. Chaventré, Évolution anthropo-biologique d'une popution Touarège: les Kel Kummer et leurs apparentés, in: Volume 103 of Institut nacional d'études démographiques: Travaux et documents, INED 1983, pp.29-33
^ Dawsahak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.

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, Northern Songhay Languages in Mali and Niger: A Sociolinguistic Survey, Proceedings of the 1998 Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference (1998)

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[1] A. Chaventré, Évolution anthropo-biologique d'une popution Touarège: les Kel Kummer et leurs apparentés, in: Volume 103 of Institut nacional d'études démographiques: Travaux et documents, INED 1983, pp.29-33

[e18-2] Dawsahak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[3] This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.

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Dawsahak
Tadáksahak
Native to	Mali, Niger^[1]
Ethnicity	Dawsahak
Native speakers	100,000 (2007)^[2]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Songhay Northern Dawsahak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`dsq`
Glottolog	`tada1238`
Location of Songhay languages^[3] Northwest Songhay: Korandje Koyra Chiini Tadaksahak Tasawaq Tagdal Eastern Songhay: Tondi Songway Kiini Humburi Senni Koyraboro Senni Zarma language Dendi
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v t e Songhay languages
Northern	Tadaksahak Tagdal Korandje Tasawaq
Southern	Dendi Humburi Senni Kaado Koyra Chiini Koyraboro Senni Tondi Kiini Zarma