Tadaksahak
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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 Ménaka Region and Gao Region of Mali. Its phonology, verb morphology and vocabulary has been strongly influenced by the neighbouring Tuareg languages, Tamasheq and Tamajaq.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | ||
| Near-close | [ɪ] | |||
| Mid | e eː | ə | o oː | |
| Open-mid | [ɛ] [ɛː] | [ɐ] | [ʌ] | [ɔ ɔː] |
| Open | [æ] | a aː | [ɑ] |
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pharyngealized | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | nˤ | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | t | tˤ | tʃ | k | q | |||
| voiced | b | d | dˤ | dʒ | ɡ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | sˤ | ʃ | x | ħ | h | |
| voiced | z | zˤ | ʒ | ɣ | ʕ | ||||
| Approximant | l | lˤ | j | w | |||||
| Flap | ɾ | ɾˤ |
See also
- Tadaksahak word list (Wiktionary)
Notes
- Christiansen, Regula (2010). A grammar of Tadaksahak a northern Songhay language of Mali (PhD thesis). Leiden University. hdl:. ISBN 9783896459312.
- Christiansen, Niels; Christiansen, Regula (2002). (Report). SIL Electronic Working Papers. Vol. 2002–005. SIL International.
- Christiansen, Regula; Levinsohn, Stephen H. (2003). (Report). SIL Electronic Working Papers. Vol. 2003–003.
- Rueck, Michael J.; Christiansen, Niels (1998). . In Cyffer, Norbert (ed.). Trends in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics. Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference. Archived from on 2013-12-03.