Tasawaq language

Sawaq
Tásàwàq
Native to	Niger
Ethnicity	Isawaghan
Native speakers	8,000 (1998)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Songhay Northern Sawaq
Dialects	Ingelshi Emghedeshie
Language codes
ISO 639-3	twq
Glottolog	tasa1240[2]
Location of Songhay languages[3] Northwest Songhay:   Korandje   Koyra Chiini   Tadaksahak   Tasawaq   Tagdal Eastern Songhay:   Tondi Songway Kiini   Humburi Senni   Koyraboro Senni   Zarma language   Dendi

Sawaq
Person	Asawagh / Ingalkoy
People	Isawaghan / Ingalkoyyu
Language	Tasawaq / Ingelshi

The Sawaq language, Tasawaq, sometimes also called Ingelshi, is a northern Songhay language spoken by the Issawaghan (or Ingalkoyyu), a community surrounding Ingal in Niger.^[4][5] A closely related variety called Emghedeshie was spoken at Agadez, but is now extinct.

Like other Northern Songhay languages, it has been strongly influenced by neighboring Tuareg languages.

References

1. Sawaq at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tasawaq". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. This map is based on classification from Glottolog and data from Ethnologue.
4. Michael J. Rueck; Niels Christiansen. Northern Songhay languages in Mali and Niger, a sociolinguistic survey. Summer Institute of Linguistics (1999).
5. Catherine Taine-Cheikh. [Les langues parlées au sud Sahara et au nord Sahel http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00456346/]. De l'Atlantique à l'Ennedi (Catalogue de l'exposition « Sahara-Sahel »), Centre Culturel Français d'Abidjan (Ed.) (1989) 155–173