Mimi_of_Nachtigal

Mimi of Nachtigal

Mimi of Nachtigal

Language of Chad

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]

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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.[2]

Basic vocabulary

The more stable of Mimi-N and Mimi-D's attested vocabulary is as follows:

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References

  1. [1]
    Lukas, Johannes & Otto Völckers. 1938. G. Nachtigal's Aufzeichnungen über die Sprache der Mimi in Wadai. Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen 29. 145‒154.
  2. [2]
    Starostin, George. On Mimi, Journal of Language Relationship, v. 6, 2011, pp. 115-140.


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