Wiji

Particle particule

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Français: N'est pas (identification)
English: Is not (identification)
العربية: ليس (تحديد هوية)

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Negation)

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Reference

Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Wiji (Is not (identification)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/308-wiji (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctarwiji,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Wiji (Is not (identification))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/308-wiji},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… t’s wife, after having declared that it was not the food that had brought her to this (other) man but his person, gets the answer:) kaláakala no he (a)ɣo (a)dí wiji thing DET ANA hé aɣ₌tǝ-háaṣi-an is.not thing 1s₌FUT-look-ALL aɣáy. 1s no, this (that you want to live with me) is not something that I will consider. The only occurrence of o DEBR following aɣo is found where the specified referent is an utterance. Later this utterance is used as a name, around which the whole con …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 174
… be read as an ordinal with a literal rendering ‘its (month) twentieth’. (41) alħád Sunday [ay₌n 3s₌GEN táaʃinda], 20 Sunday is the twentieth, isn’t it? 4.1.5.5 wiji? is.not Multiplication and distributive clauses Multiplication can also be expressed with a simple NP. The head is a numeral in the plural and the modifier numeral expresses ‘how many times’. (42) iʃʃ-én seven-PL kaaṛáḍ kaaṛaḍ-én iʃʃá 3 three-PL 3 times seven 7 7 times three Numerals above ‘ten’ use a different pa …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 179
… ara/ʃi ‘there is/there is not’,7 although the relative clause is typically separated from the head noun by the verb. (47) Bora a-Ø-ʃi [#- Ø-may imuṇas] endanga wiji Idaksahak. person 3S-PERF-be.not PERF-own camels if not Idaksahak There is nobody who has camels if it is not the Idaksahak. (Lit., A person does not exist who owns camels….) However, the Tamasheq existentials ilay ‘there is’ and wurtila ‘there is not’ are also found in texts. Both terms behave like unanalysed par …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 12

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