Tadaksahak language
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| Tadaksahak | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i, iː | u, uː |
| Mid | e, eː | o, oː |
| Open | a, aː | |
[edit] Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar or palatal |
Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||
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| Plain | Pharyngealized | ||||||||
| Stops and affricates |
Voiceless | t | tˤ | ʧ | k | q | |||
| Voiced | b | d | dˤ | ʤ | ɡ | ||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | f | s | sˤ | ʃ | x | ħ | h | |
| Voiced | z | zˤ | ʒ | ɣ | ʕ | ||||
| Nasals | m | n | nˤ | ŋ | |||||
| Flaps | ɾ | ɾˤ | |||||||
| Laterals | l | lˤ | |||||||
| Semivowels | j | w | |||||||
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[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
