Jabal al-Lughat

Throughout In most Tuareg varieties, the verb 'be able' is dub-ət (pf. yă-ddob-ăt , impf. ti-dubu-t ). There are no compelling cog...

Mt. Băgzăn, at the heart of the predominantly Tuareg-speaking Air massif in Niger, bears a not very Tuareg-looking name. The only Berber mea...

Animacy - human or animal or object - often makes a big difference in grammar. However, what counts as animate, and when, is not always str...

Northern Songhay is a small group of languages (Korandjé, Tadaksahak, Tagdal, and Tasawaq) spoken in the Sahara, with a Songhay core vocabu...

A reader of this blog, Julian Jarosch, wrote in to announce a collaborative project that will very likely interest some other readers: Th...

I'm almost three-quarters of the way through Heath's Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali) . The main interest lies in its efforts t...

An article of mine that's been in the pipeline for almost four years has finally come out: " Writing 'Shelha' in new media:...

Aljazeera's documentary Orphans of the Sahara is worth watching for anyone interested in Tuareg language, as well as Tuareg politics – ...

Tadaksahak, a heavily Berber-influenced Northern Songhay language spoken in northern Mali and Niger and closely related to Korandjé, is a r...

Tuareg oral tradition records that, when the Tuareg arrived in the Ahaggar (Hoggar) Mountains of southern Algeria sometime in the first mill...