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Procédés de pluralisation et marques du pluriel dans une langue dite « mixte » : le tasawaq d’Ingall

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2010
Le tasawaq (langue actuellement parlée à Ingall et à Teggida-n-tessemt dans le Nord du Niger) est une langue mixte dont le lexique contient des bases lexicales qui se rapprochent de celles du songhay (ces bases lexicales constituent la majorité du ...
Alimata Sidibe née Ouedraogo
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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa, edited by Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon [PDF]

, 2018
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Ngom, Fallou
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La question de l’influence de la Qādiriyya sur les débuts du califat de Ḥamdallāhi, à l’épreuve de nouvelles sources

Afriques, 2021
In their analysis of the movement launched by Aḥmad Lobbo in 1818, authors writing during the colonial period (such as Marty or Hampâté Bâ) projected to the past, in an anachronistic manner, the prominent role of Sufi brotherhoods as it had developed ...
Bernard Salvaing
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Rulers, Scholars, and Invaders: A Select Bibliography of the Songhay Empire [PDF]

, 2004
The Songhay Empire was a remarkable west African state, flourishing in several areas including territorial and trade expansion, development of a strong military and centralized government, unprecedented support for learning and scholarship, and skilful ...
Singleton, Brent D.
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A Tasawaq (Northern Songhay, Niger) Text with Grammatical Notes

Linguistic Discovery, 2015
This paper provides a grammatical sketch and text of Tasawaq, a Northern Songhay language spoken in ...
Maarten Kossmann
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Voix de femmes songhay-zarma du Niger

Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2012
There is, when a man remarries among the Songhay-Zarma of Niger, a specific ritual for polygamous marriages, called the marcanda, in which women, divided into « big » and « little » wives, engage in a verbal joust and then sing together.
Sandra Bornand
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Analyse des comportements épilinguistiques et des activités métalinguistiques des élèves dans les disciplines non-linguistiques des écoles bilingues songhay-français

Corela, 2020
Our research refers to the place of metalinguistic in the context of bilingual school where pupils are aware of the specifics of the language universe from a certain number of observation and reflection activities on the language facts.
Zakaria Nounta
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Jean Rouch: The semiotics of ethnographic film

Sign Systems Studies, 2013
Jean Rouch (1917–2004) is considered to be the greatest ethnographic filmmaker in the world. His films, which focus primarily on the Songhay of the Upper Niger in Africa, have fundamentally changed the spirit, goals, and methods of ethnographic ...
Irene Portis-Winner
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Islam in West Africa

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1997
Islam in West Africa is a collection of nineteen essays written by Nehemia Levtzion between 1963 and 1993. The book is divided into five sections. dealing with different facets of the history and sociology of Islam in West Africa.
Ahmed Sheikh Bangura
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Pharyngealization and the Vowel System of Tasawaq (Northern Songhay)

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2012
In this article, it is argued that Tasawaq, a Northern Songhay language in Niger, has two different dialects. One dialect has pharyngealized consonants as phonemes, while the other dialect lacks them, but has a binary opposition between /a/ and /æ/.
Maarten Kossmann
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