Tihishit

Tihishit (Tagdal and Tabarog)
Spoken in	Niger
Linguistic classification	Nilosaharan languages Songhai languages Northern Songhai Tihishit
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	ssa
ISO 639-3	tda

Tihishit is the collective name proposed by Robert Nicolaï for the dialects Tagdal and Tabarog , spoken by nomads in central Niger , which belong to the Northern Songhai .

"Tihishit" is a word from the Tuareg language Tamahaq, which means "language of the blacks".

                   Nördliches Songhai
                  /                  \
          Nomadisch                    Sesshaft
         /         \                     /      \
   Tadaksahak    Tihishit             Tasawaq    Korandje
                /       \              /     \
             Tagdal   Tabarog    Ingelsi   Emghedeshie
                                           (ausgestorbene Sprache von Agadez)

Web links

• Ethnologue entry on Tagdal
• Open Language Archives Community
• Northern Songhay Languages ​​in Mali and Niger

Individual evidence

1. ^ Les dialectes du songhay. Contribution à l'étude des changements linguistiques. Selaf, Paris 1981. ISBN 2852971240 . Page 306.