Tadaksahak language

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Tadaksahak
Spoken in	Mali, Algeria
Total speakers	31,800
Language family	Nilo-Saharan Songhay Northern Nomadic Tadaksahak
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	ssa
ISO 639-3	dsq
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Tadaksahak is a Songhay language spoken primarily in Mali.

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Vowels 1.2 Consonants 2 References 3 External links

[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
			Plain	Pharyngealized
Nasal		m	n	nˤ		ŋ
Plosive and Affricate	Voiceless		t	tˤ	ʧ	k	q
	Voiced	b	d	dˤ	ʤ	ɡ
Fricative	Voiceless	f	s	sˤ	ʃ	x		ħ	h
	Voiced		z	zˤ	ʒ	ɣ		ʕ
Flap			ɾ	ɾˤ
Lateral			l	lˤ
Approximant					j	w

[edit] References

• Niels and Regula Christiansen (2002). Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or, Berber or Songhay, this is the question
• Regula Christiansen and Stephen H. Levinsohn (2003). Relative clauses in Tadasahak

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue report for language code:dsq