| Tadaksahak | |
| Nativename: | Tadáksahak |
| States: | Mali, Niger[1] |
| Ethnicity: | Dawsahak |
| Script: | Arabic script Latin alphabet |
| Date: | 2022 |
| Ref: | e26 |
| Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
| Fam2: | Songhay |
| Fam3: | Northern |
| Iso3: | dsq |
| Glotto: | tada1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Tadaksahak |
| Notice: | IPA |
| Map: | Songhay languages.svg |
| Mapcaption: | Location of Songhay languages[2] Northwest Songhay:Eastern Songhay: |
Tadaksahak (also Daoussahak, Dausahaq and other spellings, after the Tuareg name for its speakers, Dăwsăhak)[3] 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.
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /i, iː/ | pronounced as /u, uː/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /e, eː/ | pronounced as /ǝ/ | pronounced as /o, oː/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /a, aː/ | |||
| Close | pronounced as /i iː/ | pronounced as /u uː/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Near-close | pronounced as /[ɪ]/ | ||||
| Mid | pronounced as /e eː/ | pronounced as /ǝ/ | pronounced as /o oː/ | ||
| Open-mid | pronounced as /[ɛ ɛː]/ | pronounced as /[ɐ]/ | pronounced as /[ʌ]/ | pronounced as /[ɔ ɔː]/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /[æ]/ | pronounced as /a aː/ | pronounced as /[ɑ]/ | ||
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pharyngealized | |||||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /nˤ/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /tˤ/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /dˤ/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /sˤ/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /zˤ/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /lˤ/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Flap | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ɾˤ/ | ||||||||