Tasawaq language

Sawaq
Tásàwàq
Native to Niger
Ethnicity Isawaghan
Native speakers
8,000 (1998)[1]
Dialects
  • Ingelshi
  • Emghedeshie
Language codes
ISO 639-3 twq
Glottolog tasa1240[2]

Location of Songhay languages[3]

Northwest Songhay:

  Tasawaq
  Tagdal

Eastern Songhay:

  Dendi
Sawaq
Person Asawagh / Ingalkoy
People Isawaghan / Ingalkoyyu
Language Tasawaq / Ingelshi

The Sawaq language (Tuareg name: Tasawaq), sometimes also called Ingelshi, is a northern Songhay language spoken by the Issawaghan (or Ingalkoyyu), a community surrounding Ingal in Niger.[4][5] 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 neighbouring Tuareg languages.

References

  1. Sawaq at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tasawaq". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.
  4. Michael J. Rueck; Niels Christiansen. Northern Songhay languages in Mali and Niger, a sociolinguistic survey. Summer Institute of Linguistics (1999).
  5. 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


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