2005
XII, 164 pp.
25 Tamashek texts with an English translation
Text language: English
The texts of the present volume are annotated with numeral notes and facing English translation. Texts 1-21 are from a single dialogue taped in 2000 between two men of different clans of the important Kal Ansar confederation in the Timbuktu region of Mali (abbreviation T-ka).
Texts 22-25 are quite different in every way. The dialect is that of Kidal (K) (Mali), the speakers are urban women (having moved from Kidal to Gao), and the texts are saucy and rather tongue-in-cheek. The women appear to be role-playing at times. While the T-ka texts are Virgilian in flavor, there are hints of Aristophanes in the Kidal texts. Non-Malian Tuareg texts can be found in Aghali-Zakara / Drouin (1979), Chaker et al. (eds.) (1984), Khamidoun (1976), Louali-Raynal et al. (1997), and Klute (2013).
Under these links you will find publications by the author, a Tamasheq study book (learner’s grammar), a Tamasheq-English dictionary, and several text editions of North and West African Tamashek varieties with translations:
