Aman Iman, Ax Issudar
Tamajaq Proverb: Aman iman, ax issudar. English translation: Water is life (essential), milk is nourishment (supplemental). Similar English Proverb: You have to put first things first.
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SIL’s Ethnologue and ISO Cooperate to Create a New Standard for Language Codes
In 2005, SIL’s Ethnologue project working with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) developed a new set of three-letter codes to standardize the identification of the languages of the world. The new standard has been labelled ISO-639-3. This standard will enable the creation of three-letter codes for all the languages of the world. An earlier
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Tamajaq, Tamajeq, Tamasheq, Tamahaq: Which is it?
There is no single word used by all the Tuaregs to refer to their language. Instead each of the four major linguistic groups of Tuaregs have their own word for the language of all the Tuareg people. Tamajaq is the word used by the Tawallammat speaking Tuaregs to refer to the language of all the Tuareg.
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What is Tamajaq?
First, foremost, and most simply Tamajaq is a word! As a word, it is subject to various uses by various people to refer to various subjects. The two primary ways in which the word Tamajaq is used are: Tamajaq is a word in the English language used by linguists to name the language referred to by the code ttq in the ISO 639-3 language