Mimi of Nachtigal
| Mimi of Nachtigal | |
|---|---|
| Mimi-N | |
| Native to | Chad |
| Extinct | (attested ca. 1870) |
Nilo-Saharan?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | mimi1241 |
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[edit]
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[edit]
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 |
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.