Tadaksahak language

Dawsahak
Tadáksahak
Spoken in	Mali, Algeria
Ethnicity	Dawsahak
Native speakers	100,000  (2007)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Songhay Northern Dawsahak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dsq
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Dawsahak
person
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.

Phonology

Vowels

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

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

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

External links

• Ethnologue report for language code:dsq