Issaouane Erg Issaouane Erg The Issaouane Erg (also called Issaouane-N-Irrararene) is an approximately 38,000 km erg (sand sea) in Algeria's portion of the Sahara desert, located at . The Issaouane Erg is located near the Ahaggar Mountains. It is part of a major dune field that extends from Issaouane Erg in the north to the Sudanese Erg in the south, flanked by the Libyan erg of Murzuq. In the north, the Issaouane Erg ends at the Tinrhert Plateau and in the south at the Fadnoun Plateau. To a large extent it follows the 500-m contour of the surrounding landscape, ergs mostly being
Arabic nouns and adjectives to ones ending in , with the masculine and feminine ' being used as adjectival forms of the concept-noun (e.g. ) depending on agreement. Thus the feminine ' of ' "partnership, cooperation, participation (definite)", ' is the Arabic word for "socialism," and the word "socialist" (both as an adjective and as the term for one who believes in socialism) is ' in the masculine and "" in the feminine. The Arabic has given rise to English adjectives of nationality for Arabic countries: Iraq"i" (from ), Kuwait"i" (from ), etc. Every verb has associated active and passive participles, as well as