Tadaksahak

Tadaksahak (also Daoussahak, Dausahaq and other spellings, after the Tuareg name for its speakers, Dăwsăhak)^[1] is a Songhay language spoken by the pastoralist Idaksahak of the Ménaka Region and Gao Region of Mali. Its phonology, verb morphology and vocabulary has been strongly influenced by the neighbouring Tuareg languages, Tamasheq and Tamajaq.

Phonology

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Phonetic vowel sounds^[2]
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		Labial	Alveolar		Post- alveolar	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
		Labial	plain	pharyngealized	Post- alveolar	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal		Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPA link		Template:IPAlink
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless		Template:IPAlink	Template:IPA link	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPA link	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
Fricative	voiceless	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPA link	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink		Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
Fricative	voiced		Template:IPAlink	Template:IPA link	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink		Template:IPAlink
Approximant			Template:IPAlink	Template:IPA link	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
Flap			Template:IPAlink	Template:IPA link

Regula Christiansen, A grammar of Tadaksahak a northern Songhay language of Mali, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (2010)
Niels and Regula Christiansen, Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or, Berber or Songhay, this is the question, SIL Electronic Working Papers (2002)
Regula Christiansen and Stephen H. Levinsohn, Relative clauses in Tadasahak, SIL Electronic Working Papers (2003)
Michael J. Rueck and Niels Christiansen, Northern Songhay Languages in Mali and Niger: A Sociolinguistic Survey, Proceedings of the 1998 Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference (1998)