Tagdal
Tagdal是桑海语族的一种语言,主要分布在尼日利亚、尼日尔,使用人口约 2.7万。按 Glottolog 的评估,它的濒危程度为“受威胁”。
Tagdal (Tuareg name: Tagdalt) is a mixed Northern Songhay language of central Niger. Ethnologue considers it a "mixed Berber–Songhay language", while other researchers consider it Northern Songhay. Nicolaï (1981) argued that Tagdal was originally derived from the Tuareg languages and adopted characteristics of Songhai rather than vice versa.
There are two dialects: Tagdal proper, spoken by the Igdalen people, pastoralists who inhabit a region to the east along the Niger border to Tahoua in Niger, and Tabarog, spoken by the Iberogan people of the Azawagh valley on the Niger–Mali border. The Iberogan sometimes refer to their language as Tagdal.
Nicolaï (1981) uses the name Tihishit as a cover term. Rueck & Christiansen say that
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