Tadaksahak

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[3]
Location of Songhay languages[4] Northwest Songhay:   Korandje   Koyra Chiini   Tadaksahak   Tasawaq   Tagdal Eastern Songhay:   Tondi Songway Kiini   Humburi Senni   Koyraboro Senni   Zarma language   Dendi

Dawsahak
People	Idaksahak
Language	Tadáksahak

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.

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
		plain	phary.
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

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
2. Dawsahak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tadaksahak". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
4. 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)