Miship language

Miship
Miship
Chip
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1976)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Angas (A.3) Miship; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mjs
Glottolog	mish1244

Miship, or Chip, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Doka is a dialect.^[1] Blench lists the two dialects Longmaar and Jiɓaam.^[2]

The Chip people are found in Pankshin LGA.^[3]

People

The traditional occupation of Miship people is farming. The people call themselves as well as their abode, Miship while outsiders wrongly call them and also their abode, Chip.^{[citation needed]}

Oral tradition states that they migrated from Kanem-Bornu to their present homeland with other tribes, Ngas, Mupun, and Mwaghavul.^[4]

Most Miship names are unisex, so in order to differentiate a man from a woman, the contracted form is used i.e. the prefix Na is added to the root word of the woman's name and Da is added to the root word of the man's. For example, for a man and a woman both sharing:

Nandi, the man would be Danan, and the woman Nanan.
Denlong, the man would be Daden, and the woman Naden.
Shakaham = Dasha/Nasha.

Words

God - Naan / Nan
Father - Nda
Child - La
Girl - Larep
Boy - La/La wu mis
Wash - Vwang
Person - Gurum
Rain - Fuan/Fwan
Children - Jep
Food - Sih/ Gwom/Gom/Mun

Rice - Kapa
Acha - Kihzuk
Soup - Tok
Chicken - Koo
Dog - As
Goat - Ih
Meat - Lu
King - Long
Animal - Long/Lu
Wild animal - Lu dhem

Lu can be used to refer to meat from animals. For example, 'chicken' would be Lu Koo. It can also be used to refer to animal. For example, 'Lu' in the following statement stands for animal: 'Mme a lu dhe mme a gurum ma' = One (of the two) is not an animal while the other is human (direct translation).

Phrases

What is your name - Sihm gih a weeh? (male); Sihm yi a weeh? (female)
Good night - Naan yaghal kih mun/Mu foghot bhit/Naan ep mun
Bye - Dhang mu kaat
Good morning - Teer (shaghap) ah?/Yaghal gwe ah?
Thank you - Plangbhwer
I am hungry - Neen laa nnan

Numbers

1)One - Kihme
2)Two - Vihl
3)Three - Kun
4)Four - Feer
5)Five - Paat
6)Six - Peme
7)Seven - Poghovihl
8)Eight - Poghokun
9)Nine - Poghofaar
10)Ten - Sar
11)Eleven - Sarpo-kihme/Sarka-kihme
20)Twenty - Yagurum
21)Twenty-one - Yagurum kih kihme
30)Thirty - Yagurum kih sar
31)Thirty-one -Yagurum kih sarpo-kihme/Yagurum kih sarka-kihme
40)Forty - Yakgurum vihl
41)Forty-one -Yakgurum vihl kih kihme
50)Fifty - Yakgurum vihl kih sar
60)Sixty - Yakgurum kun
70)Seventy -Yakgurum kun kih sar
71)Seventy-one - Yakgurum kun kih sarpo-kihme/sarka-kihme
80)Eighty - Yakgurum feer
81)Eighty-one -Yakgurum feer kih kihme
90)Ninety -Yakgurum feer kih sar
91)Ninety-one - Yakgurum feer kih sarpo-kihme/sarka-kihme
100)One hundred - Yakgurum paat/Dha kihme/Dhali kihme
200)Two hundred - Ndaam kihme/dha vihl/dhali vihl/yakgurum sar

References

^ ^a ^b Miship at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.
^ "Official Website of Plateau State". www.plateaustate.gov.ng. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
^ Mohammed, Aminu Muazu; Katwal, Permark Isah (2010). "The Miship: People, language, and dialects" (PDF). California Linguistic Notes.

[e18-1] Miship at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Blench2017-2] Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.

[3] "Official Website of Plateau State". www.plateaustate.gov.ng. Retrieved 2016-12-26.

[4] Mohammed, Aminu Muazu; Katwal, Permark Isah (2010). "The Miship: People, language, and dialects" (PDF). California Linguistic Notes.

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