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Word: tamashek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1953-1953
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...south of Algiers. His parish covered 1,500,000 square miles of the Sahara. His parish house was a small mud hut in Tamanrasset, 400 miles from the nearest French outpost. His daily meal was a miserable date-and-barley stew. Within a year he translated the Gospels into Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg, writing with an ink made from charcoal and camel urine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For God & France | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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