Tamashek Texts from Timbuktu and Kidal (Mali)

Author: Jeffrey Heath. Series edited by: Harry Stroomer.

Series: BS Berber Studies Volume 13

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 (abbreviation T-ka).

Texts 22-25 are quite different in every way. The dialect is that of Kidal (K), 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 West African Tamashek varieties with translations:

Accompanying material:

• Dictionary of the Tamasheq of North-East Burkina Faso (ISBN 978-3-89645-924-4)
• The Tamasheq of North-East Burkina Faso – a Learner's Grammar (ISBN 978-3-89645-919-0)
• Tuareg-Aufstand in der Wüste (ISBN 978-3-89645-732-5)

Cross-reference:

• A Grammar of Koyraboro (Koroboro) Senni (ISBN 978-3-89645-106-4)
• A Grammar of Tadaksahak (ISBN 978-3-89645-931-2)
• Texts in Koroboro Senni (Songhay of Gao, Mali) (ISBN 978-3-89645-261-0)
• Texts in Koyra Chiini (Songhay of Timbuktu, Mali) (ISBN 978-3-89645-260-3)

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