Mimi of Nachtigal explained

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]

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:

glossMimi-NMimi-D
twosønmel
eyekaldyo
firesou
stonemuguru
handraisil
whatɲeta
diedafaya
drinkabandʒi
dogɲuk
moon
claw/nailfer
bloodari
oneul-undeg
toothziːkɲain
eatɲyam
hairfuːlsuf (Arabic?)
watersun (Fur?)engi
nosehurfir
mouthmilɲyo
earkuyifeɾ
birdkabal-a
bonekadʒi
sunsey
treesu
killkuduma
footzaŋrep
hornkamin
meatneŋɲyu
eggdʒulut
blackliwuk
headkidʒ-ibo
nightlem
fishgonas
seeyakoe

See also

Notes and References

  1. Lukas . Johannes . Otto . Völckers . Otto Völckers . 1938 . G. Nachtigal's Aufzeichnungen über die Sprache der Mimi in Wadai . Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen . 29 . 145‒154.
  2. Starostin . George . On Mimi . Journal of Language Relationship . 6 . 2011 . 115–140. 10.31826/jlr-2011-060111 . free .