Mimi of 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 & Völckers (1938).[2]
| Mimi of Nachtigal | |
|---|---|
| Mimi-N | |
| Native to | Chad |
| Extinct | (attested ca. 1870) |
Nilo-Saharan?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | mimi1241[1] |
Classification
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.[3]
Data
See Mimi of Decorse for some of the attested vocabulary.
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gollark: Did you send that twice as a deliberate stylistic thing or just network/Discord horrors?
gollark: Admittedly, inflation-adjusting the distant past might be slightly tricky.
gollark: It's captioned.
gollark: We are in historically unprecedented times.
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mimi-Nachtigal". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Lukas, Johannes & Otto Völckers. 1938. G. Nachtigal's Aufzeichnungen über die Sprache der Mimi in Wadai. Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen 29. 145‒154.
- Starostin, George. On Mimi, Journal of Language Relationship, v. 6, 2011, pp. 115-140.
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