Idaksahak people

The Dawsahak people, Idaksahak (var.: Daoussahak,^[1]^[2] Dahoussahak,^[3] Dausahaq, Daosahaq, Daoussahaq, Daoussak, Dawsahaq) are pastoralist Berbers centered on Ménaka and Inékar town in Ménaka Region and Talataye in Ansongo Cercle of the Gao Region of northeastern Mali.^[4]^[5]^[6] They speak the Northern Songhai language Tadaksahak.^[7] Many also speak Western Tawallammat Tamajaq language, the Tuareg language of southern Gao.^[8] Daoussahak appears to be the most common transliteration of the collective name among French and English academics.^[1]^[2]

^ ^a ^b Edmond Bernus (ed.). Art of being Tuareg: Sahara nomads in a modern world. Indiana University Press (2006) ISBN 978-0-9748729-4-0 p.291
^ ^a ^b Jeffrey Heath. A grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali), Volume 35 of Mouton grammar library. Walter de Gruyter, (2005) ISBN 978-3-11-018484-6 p.9
^ 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
^ David J. Phillips. Peoples on the move: introducing the nomads of the world. William Carey Library, 2001 ISBN 0-87808-352-9 pp.146-147
^ R Christiansen-Bolli. A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali: Summary. Leiden University
^ R Christiansen-Bolli. A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali: Introduction. Leiden University
^ CM Benítez-Torres. [www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/38/paper2136.pdf Inflectional vs. Derivational Morphology in Tagdal: A Mixed Language] In Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, ed. (2009)
^ Michael J Rueck; Niels Christiansen. Northern Songhay languages in Mali and Niger, a sociolinguistic survey. Summer Institute of Linguistics (1999).