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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Hamitic lauguages of the Sahara or Mauretania.

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Examples

  • Featuring '70s era electric guitars and lyrics and chants sung in Tamashek, Tinariwen plays trance music: the subtle, pervasive percussion creates a circular hypnotism that the melodies and guitar riffs embrace.

    Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Desert Blues and a Sufi Muse Derek Beres 2011

  • Featuring '70s era electric guitars and lyrics and chants sung in Tamashek, Tinariwen plays trance music: the subtle, pervasive percussion creates a circular hypnotism that the melodies and guitar riffs embrace.

    Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Desert Blues and a Sufi Muse Derek Beres 2011

  • Whether or not you parse Arabic, Tamashek or Songhai, or understand her social critiques, your ears will nevertheless recognize a powerful belter—one of the most arresting voices heard in the last decade.

    Garden Grunge, Animals in the Park Andy Beta 2011

  • While in Niger, she studied Tamashek and Hausa and wrote freelance articles about Nigerien culture and society.

    John Prendergast: Field Dispatch: Jonglei, Southern Sudan 2009

  • The songs are in three languages, Sonrai, Tamashek and Fula.

    Ali Farka Toure Disciple Makes a Great Debut 1999

  • The songs are in three languages, Sonrai, Tamashek and Fula.

    Ali Farka Toure Disciple Makes a Great Debut 1999

  • But the band's members prefer to talk about "asuf," a sentiment from their own culture and Tamashek language that describes both a sense of spiritual pain, yearning or nostalgia and the emptiness of the desert itself.

    NYT > Home Page By LARRY ROHTER 2011

  • But the band's members prefer to talk about "asuf," a sentiment from their own culture and Tamashek language that describes both a sense of spiritual pain, yearning or nostalgia and the emptiness of the desert itself.

    NYT > Home Page By LARRY ROHTER 2011

  • But the band's members prefer to talk about "asuf," a sentiment from their own culture and Tamashek language that describes both a sense of spiritual pain, yearning or nostalgia and the emptiness of the desert itself.

    NYT > Global Home By LARRY ROHTER 2011

  • Backed by pounding djembe and calabash and handclaps by the twirly-armed, twinkle-toed Hassan Ag Touhami, Ag Alhabib sang of life, friends and freedom in his native Tamashek language and world-weary Johnny Cash baritone.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

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