táaʃinda

Numeral num.

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Français: Vingt
English: twenty
العربية: عشرون

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 140 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). táaʃinda (twenty). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1702-taashinda (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctartaainda,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{táaʃinda (twenty)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1702-taashinda},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… rackets on the list below. (159) Numerals number a-ffó / (a-f)fóo-da 3.2.9.2 gloss 1 hiŋká 2 kaaṛáḍ 3 akkóz 4 ʃammúʃ 5 ʃaaḍíʃ 6 iʃʃá 7 iṭṭám 8 ṭaaṣá 9 maaṛá 10 táaʃinda 20 ṭ-ǝ-méedi 100 a-jím 1000 Compound numerals The multiples of ten higher than twenty are built by juxtaposition. This kind of compounding is not found elsewhere in the language. It seems to be a imported feature from Tamasheq where the constituents are in this same order, e.g. /sǝmmos(ăt) tǝṃǝrwen/ ‘fifty’ (l …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 158
… numerals higher than ‘ten’ are formed as a genitive construction. The modified noun, i.e. the head and last element of the clause, is in the singular. (36) a) táaʃinda twenty n GEN twenty days b) zaɣrí day ṭáasay-t-ǝ-méṛw-in nine-F-PL-ten-PL ǝn GEN ninety people borá person This construction can be used to express ‘for X money’ where the numeral gives the amount of money and the head noun is the item paid for. Often the head is a mass noun but it can also be some other item …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 177
… aurait aussi joué un rôle dans la formation du tagdal (Souag 2015b*, résumé). Deux indices sont à la portée de tout lecteur du dictionnaire du site. Le nombre táaʃinda, « vingt », que Christiansen-Bolli rapproche du zénaga de Mauritanie (2010, p. 139-140) ; et le modificateur agar, « mauvais », qu’elle dit « sans aucun doute » d’origine berbère, bien qu’il ne semble pas exister en touareg (p. 118). Ce sont, selon Souag, les seules comparaisons avec un berbère non touareg que …

MOCTAR (2026), Sur les pistes de ceux d’Ishaq, p. 13
… l’IPU, les noms des nombres de trois à cinq sont les mêmes en tadaksahak et en tawillimidt (Ag Agouzoum, Hamadou et Ag Abdoussalam, s. d., p. 42-43), alors que táaʃinda, « vingt », est rapproché du zénaga. C’est donc dans ce qui sépare le tadaksahak de la tawillimidt, plus que dans ce qui l’en rapproche, qu’il faudra chercher la trace d’un berbère occidental.

MOCTAR (2026), Sur les pistes de ceux d’Ishaq, p. 28
… ought to have played a part in the formation of Tagdal (Souag 2015b*, abstract). Two clues are within reach of any reader of the site’s dictionary: the numeral táaʃinda, “twenty”, which Christiansen-Bolli compares with the Zenaga of Mauritania (2010, p. 139–140); and the modifier agar, “bad”, which she says “doubtlessly” has a Berber background, even though it does not seem to exist in Tuareg (p. 118). According to Souag, these are the only comparisons with a non- Tuareg Berb …

MOCTAR (2026), On the Trails of Those of Ishaq, p. 13

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