Tasawaq language
| Sawaq | |
|---|---|
| Tásàwàq | |
| Native to | Niger |
| Ethnicity | Isawaghan |
Native speakers | 8,000 (1998)[1] |
|
Nilo-Saharan?
| |
| Dialects |
Ingelshi
Emghedeshie
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
twq |
| Glottolog |
tasa1240[2] |
| Sawaq | |
|---|---|
| Person | Asawagh / Ingalkoy |
| People | Isawaghan / Ingalkoyyu |
| Language | Tasawaq / Ingelshi |
The Sawaq language, Tasawaq, sometimes also called Ingelshi, is a northern Songhay language spoken by the Issawaghan (or Ingalkoyyu), a community surrounding Ingal in Niger.[3][4] A closely related variety called Emghedeshie was spoken at Agadez, but is now extinct.
Like other Northern Songhay languages, it has been strongly influenced by neighboring Tuareg languages.
References
- ↑ Sawaq at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tasawaq". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Michael J. Rueck; Niels Christiansen. Northern Songhay languages in Mali and Niger, a sociolinguistic survey. Summer Institute of Linguistics (1999).
- ↑ Catherine Taine-Cheikh. [Les langues parlées au sud Sahara et au nord Sahel http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00456346/]. De l'Atlantique à l'Ennedi (Catalogue de l'exposition « Sahara-Sahel »), Centre Culturel Français d'Abidjan (Ed.) (1989) 155–173
| ||||||||||