Introduction

 
This Tamahaq-French dictionary is a work-in-progress stemming from research done on several historical dictionaries by researchers of the Tamahaq language as spoken in the Hoggar or Ahaggar.

This investigation and update of the Tamahaq lexicon of Ahaggar is based on the work of Cid Kaoui and the colossal work of Ch. De Foucauld in five volumes, accompanied by the French index of Cortade and Mammeri, with the revisions of Professor Guy Barrère and family. The opinion of Karl Prasse, researcher of the different Tuareg dialects, as well as his research on the Tamahaq phonology, also contributed to a simplification of the spelling which we seek in the Latin part.

This dictionary is intended for those who appreciate using the Tamahaq language. There are 40,000 speakers of Tamahaq in Algeria and 81,000 in all countries. In Algeria, they are located in the provinces of Adrar and Illizi; the province of Tamanrasset: southward to the Niger border in the south Hoggar mountains as well as southeast, in the Ganet area, and west (Hoggar Ghat dialect).

The language is classified as Asiatic, Berber, Tamasheq, Northern. The ISO code is [thv] Dialects include: Hoggar (Ahaggaren, Ajjer, Tahaggart), Ghat (Djanet, Ganet). Alternate names for Tamahaq include: Tamachek, Tamachek’, Tamahaq, Tamashekin, Tamasheq, Tomachek, Touareg, Tourage, or Tuareg.

A grammatical description of Tamahaq has been done. Several scripts have been used for wiring materials in Tamahaq, including Arabic, Naskh variant. Latin script. In Niger the Tifinagh (Berber) script, called Shifinagh has been used.