| Mimi of Nachtigal | |
| Nativename: | Mimi-N |
| States: | Chad |
| Era: | attested 1870 |
| Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
| Fam2: | Maban |
| Iso3: | none |
| Glotto: | mimi1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Mimi-Nachtigal |
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]
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]
The more stable of Mimi-N and Mimi-D's attested vocabulary is as follows:
| 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 |