Mimi of Nachtigal, or Mimi-N, is a language of Chad that is attested only in a word list labelled "Mimi" that was collected ca. 1870 by Gustav Nachtigal. Nachtigal's data was subsequently published by Lukas & Voelckers (1938).[1]
Mimi of Nachtigal | |
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Mimi-N | |
Native to | Chad |
Era | attested c. 1870 |
Nilo-Saharan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | mimi1241 |
Classification
editJoseph 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.[2]
Basic vocabulary
editThe more stable of Mimi-N and Mimi-D's attested vocabulary is as follows:
gloss | Mimi-N | Mimi-D |
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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
edit- Mimi of Decorse
- Mimi of Nachtigal word list (Wiktionary)
References
edit- ^ Lukas, Johannes; Völckers, Otto (1938). "G. Nachtigal's Aufzeichnungen über die Sprache der Mimi in Wadai". Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen. 29: 145‒154.
- ^ Starostin, George (2011). "On Mimi". Journal of Language Relationship. 6: 115–140. doi:10.31826/jlr-2011-060111.