Dictionary of the Tamahaq Language with Grammar

TAMAHAQ -
THE LANGUAGE OF THE IMUHAR (TUAREG)

Tamahaq (known also as Tahaggart) belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken by the Imuhar (Tuareg) in the South of Algeria and Libya. Approximately 62,000 people.
Within the social groups of all "Tuareg" exist separate dialect variants, which are more or less differentiated.

As a result, linguists can no longer clearly say whether it is a language with different dialects or several languages with dialect variations (Eg. Heath 2005: 2).

ISO Language Code 639-3 TMH

Tamahaq_____(Tahaggart)_THV
Tamahaq_____(Tazjert)_THV
Tamahaq_____(Tahnet)_THV

Algeria (Ahaggar),
Libya (Ghat), Algeria (Djanet)
Algeria (Ahnet)

Tamascheq __(Tadrart)_ TAQ
Tamascheq___(Tameslemt)_TAQ

Mali (Kidal), Burkina Faso
Mali (Gao, Timbuktu)

Tamascheq___ (Tayart)_THZ

Tamascheq___(Tawallammat)_TTQ

Niger (Air-Mountains)
Niger (Western Niger)

TAMAHAQ- Dictionary
(The dictionary is under construction!)

Tamahaq-German-English

A-Z
Questions
Animals
Shouts
Time
Idiomatic Expressions ( Welcome, Farewells, Thanks, Insults, ...)

German-Tamahaq-English

Household/Clothing
Nutrition
People/Kinship
Numbers
Dimensions

TAMAHAQ - GRAMMAR

Noun
Pronoun
Preposition
Verbal System
Qualifiers / Qualitative Verbs ("Adjectives")
Conjunction
More Grammar

TAMAHAQ - SCRIPT

Tifinar ( Tifinagh)

The Tamahaq German lexicon (dictionary) are based on the dialect of the Kel Ahaggar, in southern Algeria.
The words are ordered in the Tamahaq in alphabetical order after their consonant root.

SAMPLE TO HEAR:

A Tamahaq-SPEAKER about the topic Tin Hinan YouTube here

Tamahaq-Literature /Ahnet, Ahaggar, Azjer:
„Dictionnaire Touareg-Français, Dialecte de l`Ahaggar“, Band I-IV, von Charles de Foucauld (1951-52) „Lexique Français-Touareg“ von Jean-Marie Cortade und Mouloud Mammeri (1967)

Jean- Marie Cortade (1969: Essai de grammaire Touareg (Dialecte de l`Ahaggar, Algier: IRS- Université d'Algier),
Prasse, Carl-Gottfried 1973: Manuel de grammaire Touaregue (tahaggart), Editions de l'Université de Copenhague.
Karl-G. Prasse; Tuareg Elementary Course (Tahaggart) (2010: Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag)

Tamascheq-Literature /Ayr, Niger:
Prasse, Karl-Gottfried/Alojaly, Ghoubeid/ Mohamed, Ghabdouane 1998: Lexique Touareg-Français, Kopenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
Kossmann; Maarten 2011: A Grammar Ayer Tuareg (Niger), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. (Very complicated)

Tamascheq-Literature /Iwellemeden, Niger:
Nicolas, Francis 1957: „Vocabulaires ethnographiques de la „Tamâjeq“ des Iullemmeden de l´Est“, in: Anthropos 52, S. 49-64.

Tamascheq-Literature /Mali:
Heath, Jeffrey 2005: A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Heath, Jeffrey 2006: Dictionnaire Touareg du Mali: Tamachek-Anglais-Français, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

Tamascheq-Literature /Burkina Faso:
David Sudlow (2001: The Tamasheq of North-East Burkina Faso: Notes on Grammar and Syntax including a Key Vocabulary, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag).

All Dialectes/Languages:
Hans Ritter 2009: Wörterbuch zur Sprache und Kultur der Twareg, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz-Verlag

Textbooks:
Jean- Marie Cortade (1969: Essai de grammaire Touareg (Dialecte de l`Ahaggar, Algier: IRS- Université d'Algier)

Tuareg Elementary Course (Tahaggart) Karl-G. Prasse (2010: Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag)

Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali) Jeffrey Heath (2005: Den Haag: Mouton de Gruyter)

TRANSCRIPTION

Umschrift	Deutsche Aussprache
d	d, emphatic or uvularized consonant
g	palatalized g
q	uvular voiceless stop, pronounced further back than K
ñ	palatalized n, like „new“
w	like „we“
r	uvular voiced fricative, like Parisian r but not vibrated, just fricative (gh)
t	t, emphatic or uvularized consonant
z	z, emphatic or uvularized consonant

sg.	Singular
pl.	Plural
w.	female
m.	male
´	Short vokal
^	Long vokal
*	Loan word