Tasawaq language
| Tasawaq | |
|---|---|
| Tásàwàq | |
| Native to | Niger |
| Region | Agadez |
| Ethnicity | Isawaghan/Ingalkoyyu |
Native speakers | 21,000 (2021)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | twq |
| Glottolog | tasa1240 |
| ELP | Tasawaq |
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| Sawaq | |
|---|---|
| Person | Asawagh / Ingalkoy |
| People | Isawaghan / Ingalkoyyu |
| Language | Tasawaq / Ingelshi |
Tasawaq(Tuareg name:Tesăwăq),[3]sometimes also calledIngelshi,is aNorthern Songhay languagespoken by theIssawaghanorIngalkoyyu,a community surrounding the town ofIn-GallinNiger.[4][5]A closely related variety called Emghedeshie was spoken inAgadezbut is now extinct.
It shares some similarities with Berber languages, e.g. Tamasheq. For example in both languages, the grammatical gender of a noun is female if it begins and ends with the letter t.
References
[edit]- ^TasawaqatEthnologue(26th ed., 2023)
- ^This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.
- ^Ritter, Georg (2009).Wörterbuch zur Sprache und Kultur der Twareg II Deutsch-Twareg.Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. p. 735.
- ^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 Sahelhttp://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
