Tadaksahak language
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Tadaksahak | ||
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Spoken in: | Mali, Algeria | |
Total speakers: | 31,800 | |
Language family: | Nilo-Saharan Songhay Northern Nomadic Tadaksahak |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | ssa | |
ISO/FDIS 639-3: | dsq | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
Tadaksahak is a Songhay language spoken primarily in Mali.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
Front | Back | |
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Close | i, iː | u, uː |
Mid | e, eː | o, oː |
Open | a, aː |
[edit] Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||
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Non- pharyngealized |
Pharyngealized | |||||||||
Stop | Voiceless | t | tˤ | k | q | |||||
Voiced | b | d | dˤ | ɡ | ||||||
Affricate | Voiceless | tʃ | ||||||||
Voiced | dʒ | |||||||||
Fricative | Voiceless | f | s | sˤ | ʃ | x | ħ | h | ||
Voiced | z | zˤ | ʒ | ɣ | ʕ | |||||
Nasal | m | n | nˤ | ŋ | ||||||
Flap | ɾ | ɾˤ | ||||||||
Lateral | l | lˤ | ||||||||
Semivowel | j | w |
[edit] References
- Niels and Regula Christiansen (2002). Some verb morphology features of Tadakshak, or, Berber or Songhay, this is the question
- Regula Christiansen and Stephen H. Levinsohn (2003). Relative clauses in Tadasahak