Mimi of Nachtigal
{{Short description|Language of Chad}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Mimi of Nachtigal
| nativename = Mimi-N
| states = Chad
| ethnicity =
| era = attested {{circa}} 1870
| familycolor = Nilo-Saharan
| fam2 = Maban
| iso3 = none
| glotto = mimi1241
| glottorefname = Mimi-Nachtigal
| map = Maban.png
| mapcaption = Map of Maban languages. Mimi-N is labeled 1.
}}
Mimi of Nachtigal, or Mimi-N, is a language of Chad that is attested only in a word list labelled "Mimi" that was collected {{Circa|1870}} by Gustav Nachtigal. Nachtigal's data was subsequently published by Lukas & Voelckers (1938).{{cite journal |last1=Lukas |first1=Johannes |first2=Otto |last2=Völckers |author-link2=Otto Völckers |year=1938 |title=G. Nachtigal's Aufzeichnungen über die Sprache der Mimi in Wadai |journal=Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen |volume=29 |pages=145‒154}}
Classification
Joseph Greenberg (1960) classified it as a Maban language, though a distant one. Subsequent researchers have supported a remote relationship, though there is little data to go on.{{cite journal |last=Starostin |first=George |url=https://rggu.academia.edu/GeorgeStarostin/Papers/983014/On_Mimi |title=On Mimi |journal=Journal of Language Relationship |volume=6 |year=2011 |pages=115–140|doi=10.31826/jlr-2011-060111 |doi-access=free }}
Basic vocabulary
The more stable of Mimi-N and Mimi-D's attested vocabulary is as follows:
class="wikitable"
!gloss !Mimi-N !Mimi-D |
two
|søn |mel |
eye
|kal |dyo |
fire
| |sou |
stone
| |muguru |
hand
|rai |sil |
what
| |ɲeta |
die
| |dafaya |
drink
|ab |andʒi |
dog
|ɲuk | |
moon
| |aɾ |
claw/nail
| |fer |
blood
|ari | |
one
|ul-un |deg |
tooth
|ziːk |ɲain |
eat
| |ɲyam |
hair
|fuːl |suf (Arabic?) |
water
|sun (Fur?) |engi |
nose
|hur |fir |
mouth
|mil |ɲyo |
ear
|kuyi |feɾ |
bird
|kabal-a | |
bone
|kadʒi | |
sun
| |sey |
tree
| |su |
kill
| |kuduma |
foot
|zaŋ |rep |
horn
| |kamin |
meat
|neŋ |ɲyu |
egg
| |dʒulut |
black
| |liwuk |
head
|kidʒ-i |bo |
night
| |lem |
fish
| |gonas |
see
| |yakoe |
See also
- Mimi of Decorse
- Mimi of Nachtigal word list (Wiktionary)
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Maban languages}}
Category:Languages attested from the 1870s
Category:Extinct languages of Africa
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